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William Henry Harrison was the seventh and youngest child of Benjamin Harrison V and Elizabeth (Bassett) Harrison. Born on February 9, 1773, at Berkeley Plantation , the home of the Harrison family of Virginia on the James River in Charles City County , [ 1 ] he became the last United States president not born as an American citizen. [ 2 ]
William Henry Harrison: Succeeded by: James K. Polk: 10th Vice President of the United States; In office March 4, 1841 – April 4, 1841: President: William Henry Harrison: Preceded by: Richard Mentor Johnson: Succeeded by: George M. Dallas: United States Senator from Virginia; In office March 4, 1827 – February 29, 1836: Preceded by: John ...
The presidency of John Tyler began on April 4, 1841, when John Tyler became the 10th President of the United States upon the death of President William Henry Harrison, and ended on March 4, 1845. He had been Vice President of the United States for only 31 days when he assumed the presidency. Tyler was the first to succeed to the office without ...
Succeeded by: William Henry Harrison: 8th Vice President of the United States; In office March 4, 1833 – March 4, 1837: President: Andrew Jackson: Preceded by: John C. Calhoun: Succeeded by: Richard Mentor Johnson: United States Minister to the United Kingdom; In office August 8, 1831 – April 4, 1832: President: Andrew Jackson: Preceded by ...
The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. [6] Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [7]
John Tyler Sr. (February 28, 1747 – January 6, 1813) was an American lawyer, planter, politician and judge who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and became 15th Governor of Virginia and later United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Virginia.
Whig nominee William Henry Harrison unseated Van Buren in the 1840 presidential election, but died just one month into his term. Harrison's successor, John Tyler, broke with the Whigs in 1841 after clashing with Clay and other Whig Party leaders over economic policies such as the re-establishment of a national bank.
Upon taking office, President William Henry Harrison appointed Badger as his Secretary of the Navy, and he continued in that post for a few months (until September 1841, when he resigned to resume private practice) when John Tyler succeeded to the Presidency upon Harrison's death (April 1841).