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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 ]
See William Henry Harrison and slavery for more details. 10th John Tyler: 29 [13] Yes (1841–1845) Tyler never freed any of his slaves and consistently supported slaveholders' rights and the expansion of slavery during his time in political office. See John Tyler and slavery for more details. 11th James K. Polk: 56 [14] Yes (1845–1849)
William Henry Harrison: Democratic-Republican (before 1828) Whig (1836–1841) Ohio: Mar. 3, 1799 May. 19, 1828 11: No (1841) Harrison inherited several slaves. As the first governor of the Indiana Territory, he unsuccessfully lobbied Congress to legalize slavery in Indiana. Henry Peter Haun: Democratic: California: Nov. 2, 1859 Mar. 3, 1860 ...
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
The incumbent President John Tyler, formerly vice-president, had assumed the presidency upon the death of William Henry Harrison in 1841. Tyler, a Whig in name only, [16] emerged as a states' rights advocate committed to slavery expansion in defiance of Whig principles.
Harrison was also in the process of constructing another plantation style farm called Harrison Valley near Corydon in 1807, the same year he was pushing for slavery to be legalized. [25] Governor, General and President William Henry Harrison. In 1803 Harrison asked Congress to suspend the anti-slavery clause of the Northwest Ordinance for ten ...
He received no votes from the slave states, where the party had not been organized. The Whig ticket of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler was elected with 234 electoral votes to 60 for the incumbent Democrat Martin Van Buren; Harrison's share of the vote in the free states (52.42%) dwarfed Birney's less than one percent showing. [13]
Harrison managed to distance himself from the losses, but Clay, as the party's philosophical leader, could not. Had the convention been held in the spring of 1840, when the continuing economic downturn caused by the Panic of 1837 led to a string of Whig victories, Clay would have had much greater support.