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| | William Henry Harrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Harrison was born into a prominent political family at the Berkeley Plantation in Charles City County Virginia, the third son of Benjamin Harrison V and Elizabeth Basset. | | | William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States, (1841). | | | Harrison resigned from the Army in 1798 to become Secretary of the Northwest Territory, and acted as governor when Governor Arthur St. Clair was absent. |
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| | Indiana Governor William Henry Harrison |
| | Harrison served as representative to Congress from Ohio from 1816 to 1819, and was elected to one term in the Ohio legislature in 1819. | | | WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON was born in Virginia, the son of Benjamin Harrison, who was himself a governor of Virginia and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. | | | Harrison, sometimes described as the "Washington of the West," was the grandfather of the twenty-third President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison. |
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| | WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS, 1791-1864 |
| | Harrison served a representative to Congress from Ohio from 1816-1819, and was elected to one term in the Ohio legislature in 1819. | | | Harrison, Will[ia]m Henry, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Indiana Territory, to the Sheriff of Knox County. | | | Harrison, William Henry, Governor and Commander in chief of the Indiana Territory and of the district of Louisiana. |
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| | William Henry Harrison |
| | Harrison was a member of the Ohio senate in 1819-21, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the National House of Representatives in 1822, when his Missouri vote helped to cause his defeat; he was a presidential elector in 1824, supporting Henry Clay, and from 1825 to 1828 was a member of the United States Senate. | | | Their grandson, Benjamin Harrison, was the twenty-third president of the United States. | | | The ninth President of the United States, William Henry Harrison was born at Berkeley, Charles City county, Virginia, on the 9th of February 1773, the third son of Benjamin Harrison (c. |
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| | WilliamHarrison |
| | William was born on February 9, 1773 in the Berkely Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia. | | | Harrison was the first of three presidents whose fathers had served as state governors. | | | William was married to Anna Tuthill Symmes on November 25, 1795, in North Bend Ohio. |
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| | MSN Encarta - William Henry Harrison |
| | William Henry Harrison was born on February 9, 1773, and grew up on his family's plantation, Berkeley, in Charles City County, Virginia. | | | He was the son of Elizabeth Basset Harrison and Benjamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and governor of Virginia. | | | As territorial secretary, Harrison had charge of the territorial records and the governor's transactions, which he presented to the Congress of the United States. |
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| | World Almanac for Kids |
| | Harrison was born on Feb. 9, 1773, to one of the wealthiest, most prestigious, and most influential families in Virginia, on a great plantation in Berkeley Co. From the early 17th century on, the Harrisons had accumulated vast landholdings, occupied the highest political and judicial positions, and intermarried with the leading families of Virginia. | | | William Henry’s youthful military career and his appointment, when he was not yet 30 years old, to the prominent post of governor of Indiana Territory were due more to the influence of his father, Benjamin Harrison, who had been governor of Virginia, than to any military or administrative talent that he himself had demonstrated. | | | Perhaps Harrison’s most significant act in his abbreviated term—he died on April 4, 1841—was his appointment of Daniel Webster as secretary of state. |
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| | William Henry Harrison |
| | Harrison's praises were sung in the president's message, in congress, and in the legislatures of the different states. | | | In 1819 General Harrison was chosen to the senate of Ohio, and in 1822 was a candidate for congress, but was defeated on account of his vote against the admission of Missouri to the Union with the restriction that slavery was to be prohibited there. | | | In 1824 he was a presidential elector, voting for Henry Clay, and in the same year he was sent to the United States senate, where he succeeded Andrew Jackson as chairman of the committee on military affairs, introduced a bill to prevent desertions, and exerted himself to obtain pensions for old soldiers. |
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| | American President |
| | In the 1820s, Harrison served in the Ohio State Senate, as a U.S. senator from Ohio, and as U.S. minister to Colombia. | | | With Jackson's election, Harrison lost his diplomatic position and retired to his farm in North Bend, Ohio, becoming active in organizing the Whig opposition to Jackson. | | | Harrison's grandson, Benjamin Harrison, would become President of the United States in 1889. |
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| | William Henry Harrison |
| | Although William Henry Harrison is considered one of the early western presidents, he was born on his grandfather's plantation in Virginia. | | | William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia, 31 days after delivering a two-hour inaugural speech in the freezing rain, a speech he had composed at Berkeley Plantation. | | | Harrison settled in at Vincennes, Indiana, after he was appointed Governor of Indiana Territory at age 27. |
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| | Ohio Biography |
| | His grandson was Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States. | | | The U.S. Supreme Court handed down the decision to free the slaves taken from the Amistad, March 9, 1841. | | | Harrison arrived at his inauguration by train, the first President to do so. |
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| | William Henry Harrison |
| | William Henry Harrison was the 9th president of the United States, one of the presidents elected based on military service, in his case the successful conduct of Indian wars. | | | William would have first remembered Washington as the dashing commander of the Continental Army visiting his father at their plantation. | | | William's father was Benjamin Harrison V. He was among the most important patriot leaders in Virginia. |
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| | William Henry Harrison and the West |
| | Harrison received his captaincy in 1797, and was soon appointed the terrtorial secretary, resigning his army commission in June 1798. | | | Harrison was the youngest son of a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, the planter Benjamin Harrison of the estate of Berkeley in Virginia, whose ancestors had come to the James in 1632. | | | His grandson Benjamin Harrison was the twenty-third president of the United States. |
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| | William Henry Harrison |
| | William Henry Harrison was born on his father’s estate, Berkeley, a tobacco plantation on the James River in Virginia. | | | Harrison won and appeared poised to enact the Whig program; Clay was in the Senate and Webster was the secretary of state. | | | Harrison was the only president to have a grandson, Benjamin Harrison, achieve the same office. |
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| | Harrison, William Henry on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Harrison and his running mate, John Tyler, were transformed by publicity. | | | Harrison, an aristocratic Virginian, was made into a simple backwoods frontiersman, Tyler into his faithful lieutenant. | | | Harrison then selected a brilliant Whig cabinet headed by Webster and adopted a program outlined by Clay, but the strain of the campaign was too much. |
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| | William Henry Harrison |
| | In 1824, Harrison was sent to the United States Senate, but resigned in 1828 when President Adams made him United States Minister of Colombia, 1828-29. | | | His childhood was spent at the Berkeley plantation, though it is said that he attended a school across the James River from the plantation. | | | The election for delegate, held on October 3, 1799, resulted in Harrison's election by a vote of 11 to 10. |
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| | SPECTRUM Biographies - William Henry Harrison |
| | William Henry Harrison was born in Berkeley, Virginia. | | | The day of Harrison's inauguration was cold and rainy. | | | He did not stay in college long because his father died, and he could not afford to go to school. |
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| | William Henry Harrison Arkansas Encyclopedia of Arkansas Arkansas History State of Arkansas |
| | His father, Benjamin Harrison V, was a signatory to the Declaration of Independence, and his brother was a member of the United States House of Representatives. | | | Harrison was a tall man, and when in Congress he was referred to by fellow westerners as a Buckeye, as were other tall, pioneers on the Ohio frontier, as a term of endearment in respect of the Buckeye chestnut tree. | | | A Western statesman of Ohio and General on the frontier, Harrison was born at the family estate, Berkeley Plantation in Virginia, and thus both |
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| | Indiana Historical Society |
| | Harrison was elected (over Arthur St. Clair, Jr.) as the Northwest Territory's first delegate to Congress in 1799, and the following year came the first of four appointments as governor of the Indiana Territory, created in 1800 by legislation Harrison had sponsored. | | | Harrison died in office just 30 days after his inauguration. | | | He was born into a distinguished family of Virginia, his father both a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a governor of Virginia. |
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| | William Henry Harrison |
| | Harrison died while in office, as did Lincoln, elected in 1860, Garfield, elected in 1880, Mckinley, elected in 1900, Harding, elected in 1920, Roosevelt, elected in 1940, and Kennedy, elected in 1960. | | | He was the only President to have been born in the same county as his Vice President, Charles City County. | | | Reagan, elected in 1980, broke the curse, but was almost assassinated while in office. |
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| | Welcome to The American Presidency |
| | Harrison, nevertheless, carried 7 states, losing to Democrat Van Buren by an electoral vote of 170 to 73. | | | On Nov. 22, 1795, Harrison married Anna Symmes, daughter of Judge John Cleves Symmes, a speculator with a patent for a vast acreage of Ohio land. | | | Harrison's Indian fighting and treaty making had secured the Old Northwest for American settlement and established the reputation that led him to the White House. |
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| | President Day |
| | One son, John Scott Harrison, was the father of Benjamin Harrison, who became the 23rd president of the United States. | | | Millard Fillmore * William Howard Taft * George Bush * Franklin Pierce | | | Harrison won an overwhelming victory, receiving 234 electoral votes to Van Buren's 60. |
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| | Reader's Companion to American History - -HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY |
| | Harrison defeated Van Buren, the Democratic candidate, by a wide margin, but died of pneumonia after only one month in office. | | | Appointed a delegate to represent the territory in Congress, Harrison drafted the first land law that opened up the West to pioneers and by this action added significantly to his political reputation. | | | Always a supporter of Henry Clay, Harrison ran on the Whig ticket in 1836 and almost won the election. |
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| | WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON |
| | Harrison gave his long inaugural address outdoors, on a wet winter's day, catching cold, and one month later dying of pneumonia. | | | Harrison Administration: Vice-President: John Tyler of Virginia, Inauguration, March 4, 1841, The Capital, Washington D.C. Death: Washington, D.C., April 4, 1841 | | | Children: Elizabeth Bassett (1796-1846); John Cleves Symmes (1798-1830); Lucy Singleton (1800-1826); William Henry (1802-1838); John Scott (1804-1878); Benjamin (1806-1840); Mary Symmes (1809-1842); Carter Bassett (1811-1839); Anna Tuthill (1813-1845); James Findlay (1814-1817). |
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| | William Henry Harrison |
| | On the day he was inaugurated, Harrison gave one of the longest inaugural addresses in history. | | | He served in the Ohio Senate and the U.S. Senate, then joined the new Whig Party and got elected president in 1840. | | | He did this in the rain, got pneumonia, and died a month later. |
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| | William Henry Harrison |
| | Harrison's Marriage and his Famous Family--paragraphs about Harrison's marriage, his family and his house, Grouseland | | | Article from a collection at the White House on presidents. | | | A great man-A Fine Soldier-Famous-Brave-Lucky--paragraphs about his bravery, why we was famous, his time spent as a soldier and his luck |
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| | William Henry Harrison Chapter One |
| | His heart was still pounding, but he was pleased that he had not been too scared to act when she needed his help. | | | His "troop" was made up of his sister Sally, aged ten, Ezra and Josh, children of the Harrison family's slaves, and Smoky, the family's spaniel. | | | He was Colonel "Light-Horse" Harry Lee, Virginia's famous cavalry leader of the American Revolution. |
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| | Ancestors of William Henry Harrison Reddick |
| | Reddick was the sixth (6th) American to be awarded the Medal of Honor on March 25, 1863 by Secretary of War Stratton for his actions as a member of Andrews Raiders also know as the "Great Locomotive Chase". | | | William REDDICK, Self, Married, Male, White, 40, Indiana, Farmer, Virginia, Alabama | | | William Henry Harrison Reddick was born September 18, 1840 in Indiana. |
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| | American Presidents: Life Portraits |
| | • 11:35pm ET William Henry Harrison’s Inaugural Address-Interview with Library of Congress Curator Gerard Gawalt Watch | | | • 10:25pm ET Vignette on William Henry Harrison's birthplace, Berkeley Plantation Watch | | | • 11:27pm ET William Henry Harrison’s Congressional Career-Interview With Senate Historian Don Ritchie Watch |
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| | William Henry Harrison |
| | Soon after delivering the longest inaugural address ever made, Harrison contracted pneumonia and, on April 4, 1841, became the first President to die in office. | | | As a two-term congressman and former territorial governor, William Henry Harrison could lay no claim to proven abilities in political leadership. | | | But his reputation as a frontier Indian fighter and hero of the War of 1812 amply made up for that lack, and in 1840 the Whigs eagerly made him their presidential standard-bearer. |
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| | William Henry Harrison |
| | The oldest president up to that time, to be inaugurated, he was also the first to die in office, surviving only one month. | | | USA-project, presidents-area, information regarding the ninth president of the United States, William Henry Harrison | | | Home > History > US History > Presidents > William Henry Harrison |
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| | William Harrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) - the ninth President of the United States | | | William H. Harrison (Wyoming Congressman) (1896-1990) - U.S. Congressman from Wyoming and great-great-grandson of the President | | | William Harrison (1553 - 1621) - Archpriest of the Catholic Church in England [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07143c.htm Catholic Encyclopedia article) |
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| | Grouseland, Vincennes Historic Treasure |
| | Because Harrison in 1840 was elected the ninth President of the United States, Grouseland is also a Presidential site. | | | This place was the residence for Harrison, his wife Anna and their children. | | | Not only a residence, the house was a center of government of the Territory, and also a fortress in times of turmoil. |
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| | BATTLE GROUND POLICE / HISTORY OF THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE |
| | General Harrison was to meet with the Prophet and his council the next day about the demands of the government. | | | With the Prophet’s Town as his objective, General Harrison marched from Vincennes at the head of a small army of about one thousand men. | | | After a fierce battle, General Harrison and his army defeated the Prophet’s Indian confederation, and all but ended the Indian wars in the midwest. |
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| | William Henry Harrison Chapter SAR |
| | Noel Reen, our chapter president, welcomes you to our home page on behalf of the members of the William Henry Harrison Chapter, SAR. | | | Indiana Society S.A.R. Meeting will be hosted by William Henry Harrison Chapter Lafayette, Indiana on November 6, 2004 | | | Sit back and enjoy yourself while you visit our chapter of the National Society, Sons of the American Revolution, here in Indiana - the "Crossroads of America!" |
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