William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) was the ninth president of the United States and died 31 days after his 1841 inauguration, the first president to die in office. He was earlier governor of the Indiana Territory and a general known for the Battle of Tippecanoe and the War of 1812.

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William Henry Harrison was born in Charles City County, Virginia, in 1773, a son of the Founding Father Benjamin Harrison V. He attended Hampden–Sydney College and studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania before turning to the army, and in 1794 he fought at Fallen Timbers, the victory that ended the Northwest Indian War.

He became secretary of the Northwest Territory in 1798 and its delegate to Congress in 1799. As governor of the new Indiana Territory from 1801 to 1812 he obtained millions of acres from Native nations through treaties, among them the 1809 Treaty of Fort Wayne, which deepened the conflict with Tecumseh's confederacy. In 1811 he led the force that fought Tecumseh's followers at Tippecanoe, and as a major general in the War of 1812 he won the Battle of the Thames in Upper Canada.

Settling in Ohio, he served in the U.S. House from 1816 to 1819, the Ohio Senate from 1819 to 1821 and the U.S. Senate from 1825 to 1828, and in 1829 was briefly minister to Gran Colombia. He was one of the Whig candidates defeated by Martin Van Buren in 1836, and in 1840, with John Tyler as running mate and the slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", he defeated Van Buren.

Harrison fell ill about three weeks after his inauguration and died on April 4, 1841, after 31 days in office, the first president to die in office. His grandson Benjamin Harrison became the 23rd president.