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William Henry Harrison: John Tyler
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On Nov. 22, 1795, William Henry Harrison married Anna Symmes, daughter of Judge John Cleves Symmes. Judge Symmes was a land speculator with a patent for a vast acreage of Ohio land. He was not very pleased with his daughter's marriage. However over the next 19 years the Harrison's became parents to 10 children. The Harrisons' children included:
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Harrison resigned from the army in May 1814 and returned to North Bend. He plunged again into politics and for the next 25 years constantly sought office. His congressional district sent him to Washington from 1816 to 1819, and he served one term (1819–21) in the Ohio senate. In 1825, Harrison returned to Washington as a U.S. senator. During his three years in the Senate, he chaired the committee on military affairs. A loyal supporter of President John Quincy Adams, he was appointed minister to Colombia in 1828 but was soon recalled by Adams's successor, Andrew Jackson.
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Upon his death, Harrison was succeeded by his Vice-President John Tyler. Since no President had died in office before, no one was quite sure how Presidential succession worked. The Constitution stipulated that the Vice-President should become the new President, but it was not clear if the Vice-President should be considered a "real" President or if he only acted as President. The Tyler administration made it clear that Vice-Presidents who became President after the death of the elected President should be treated as legitimate Presidents. That question was not decided once and for all... until the 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967.
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In the 1824 presidential campaign Harrison worked for Clay in Ohio. Clay won Ohio's electoral votes, and in 1825 the legislature chose Harrison to be U.S. senator from Ohio. Although he was chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, his three-year service in the Senate was undistinguished. In 1828 he failed to attain nomination as President John Quincy Adams' running mate and he then accepted appointment as ambassador to Colombia.
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Instead of the pliable Harrison, the Whigs confronted in Tyler a tenacious defender of presidential prerogative and a formidable foe of their plan to establish congressional supremacy over the executive branch. Threatened with impeachment, repeatedly exhorted to resign, banished from the Whig Party, abandoned by his cabinet, and burned in effigy, Tyler stood firm and maintained the integrity of the presidential office.
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Once again Harrison conducted a vigorous campaign, delivering at least 23 speeches ranging from one to three hours in length. Partisans measured the size of his rallies by acres, and John Quincy Adams noted a state of political agitation "never before witnessed."
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