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William Henry Harrison , 1773 - 1841 is the ninth President of the United States of America. He is elected for a mandate as from 1841 but dies one month after his taking of.

As a General, it acquired his reputation and its nickname while ordering during the battle of Tippecanoe against the Indiens. It is reached of Pneumonie by making speech a one hour and half under an icy rain the day of its nomination and dies one month later.

Biography

W.H. Harrison is born the February 9th 1773 in Virginia. His/her father Benjamin Harrison and his mother Elizabeth Basset are growers slave implied in policy, his/her father is one of the signatories of the Constitution of the United States and his/her brother is appointed.

At 18 years it engages in the army and quickly climbs the levels to become the first governor of the territory of the Indiana. During the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom it obtains on October 5th, 1813 a decisive victory against the British troops and their Indian allies. The chief of the tribe Shawnee, Tecumseh, is killed putting an end to his dream of unified Indian government. Harrison gains his nickname of “Tippecanoe there”, the place where the battles was held. The massacre of many Indian civilians, and by certain historians, is regarded today as a war crime. Its control during the war against the allied Indians of the British is worth to him his promotion with the rank of general and he is then regarded as a national hero.

After the war it begins a political career and is elected appointed, then senator. He is a savage partisan of the Esclavage and votes against all the private bills tending either to limit the extension of it, or to restrict the rights of the owners. He is the candidate of the Parti whig with the presidential election 1836 where he is beaten. He represents himself in 1840, whereas the economic situation is degraded and elected especially thanks to its past of soldier.

Presidency

1841

March 4th: Nomination of W.H. Harrison as a ninth president of the United States of America. Its inaugural speech of 8445 words lasts two hours, longest of the history, and Harrison speaks without his coat, gloves or hat by an extremely icy and windy time. He catches a Rhume which develops in Pneumonie then in ignition of the Plèvre. He dies one month later, on April 4th, 1841 with 00:30. He becomes the president whose mandate will have been shortest (30 days, 11 hours and 10 minutes) and the first to die during his mandate. Its vice-president, John Tyler, succeeds to him.

Interior policy

It is obvious that Harrison could not achieve large things in one month but in any event its program was summarized in “less State”. After the presidency of Andrew Jackson and a very personalized capacity, Harrison preferred to leave the reins to the Congress.

Policy partisane

The Whig Party had learned the lesson from the failures to the elections preceding and understood that the personality of the candidate was, with the eyes of the public, more important than its program. Harrison is elected while being the first candidate to make an electoral campaign using the artifices current: slogans, Publicity, meeting, distribution of gadgets etc, including the insults and the insinuations on the sexual life of the competitor candidates. He east depicts as a candidate resulting from the people whereas his/her parents belong to the upper middle classes while its competitor, Martin Van Buren east depicts as an aristocrat although its origins are very modest.

Anecdotes

During the candidate nomination of the Party whig, with national convention, one builds a ball of more than three meters in diameter out of cord, wood and tinplate which is covered with slogans in favor of the Party. She will traverse the country during the electoral campaign what will give rise to the expression “to preserve the ball moving” (keep the ball rolling) used by American to encourage somebody to continue his effort.

During the electoral campaign one distributes whiskey mignonnettes to the effigy of the candidate manufactured by the Booz firm. It is the origin of the term of slang “booze” used by American to indicate all strong alcohols.

W.H. Harrison remained the oldest elected president, being 68 years old. This record will last until the election of Ronald Reagan, 69 years.

Its grandson Benjamin Harrison will become the 29e president in 1889.

See too

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