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In 1840, William Henry Harrison was elected President of the United States.Harrison, who had served as a general and as United States Senator from Ohio, defeated the incumbent president, Democrat Martin Van Buren, in a campaign that broke new ground in American politics.
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, ... [100] [101] Harrison's campaign was the victim of what is described as the nation's first "October surprise ...
By this time, the party had been almost entirely supplanted by the Whigs. The delegates unanimously voted to nominate William Henry Harrison for president (who the party had supported for president the previous election along with Francis Granger for vice president) and Daniel Webster for vice president. However, when the Whig National ...
In 1840, Whig party candidate for President William Henry Harrison was aided by a 'hard cider and log cabin' campaign after an infamous blunder.
Its lyrics sang the praises of Whig candidates William Henry Harrison (the "hero of Tippecanoe") and John Tyler, while denigrating incumbent Democrat Martin Van Buren. Folk music critic Irwin Silber wrote that the song "firmly established the power of singing as a campaign device" in the United States, and that this and the other songs of 1840 ...
[8] – Benjamin Harrison, referring to his grandfather, William Henry Harrison "Tippecanoe and Morton too" – Slogan and campaign song title for Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton, with song adapted from 1840s "Tippecanoe and Tyler too". "Unnecessary taxation oppresses industry." – Grover Cleveland "Reduce the tariff on necessaries of life."
The Whigs chose William Henry Harrison because of his similarities to former president Andrew Jackson in the sense that he was a war hero [5] and a man of the people. [6] This approach proved successful because William Henry Harrison won the election by dominating the electoral college, despite winning by only 5% of the popular vote.
The 1839 Whig National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held from December 4 to December 8 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.It was the first national convention ever held by the Whig Party, and was organized to select the party's nominee in the 1840 presidential election.