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William Henry Harrison was the first member of the Whig party to be elected President. He served the shortest time of any President, only 32 days. Harrison was born at Berkeley, his family's Virginia plantation, and intended to study medicine to please his father. When his father died... he abandoned medicine for a military career, serving in the Northwest Territory and seeing action in the Battle of Fallen Timbers, in which the Indian Confederacy of the Northwest was defeated. He became governor of the Indiana Territory in 1800.
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William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was a United States politician and the 9th President of the United States. Before becoming president, he was the first governor of Indiana Territory and then a senator representing Ohio. He was the first US president to die in office, and was succeeded by his vice president, John Tyler.
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William Henry Harrison attended Hampden-Sydney College and the University of Pennsylvania. After his father died, he had no money to pay for schooling, and was compelled to join the army. He fought much of his life with natives in Northwest Territory and was instrumental in opening the West especially Ohio to the American Dream of white settlers.
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William Henry Harrison was born in Charles City County, Va., on Feb. 9, 1773. Joining the army in 1791, he was active in Indian fighting in the Northwest, became secretary of the Northwest Territory in 1798 and governor of Indiana in 1800. He married Anna Symmes in 1795. Growing discontent over white encroachments on Indian lands led to the formation of an Indian alliance under Tecumseh to resist further aggressions. In 1811, Harrison won a nominal victory over the Indians at Tippecanoe and in 1813 a more decisive one at the Battle of the Thames, where Tecumseh was killed.
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The ninth President of the United States, William Henry Harrison was born at Berkeley, Charles City county, Virginia, on the 9th of February 1773, the third son of Benjamin Harrison (c. 1740-91.) His father was long prominent in Virginia politics, and became a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1764, opposing Patrick Henry's Stamp Act resolutions in the following year; he was a member of the Continental Congress in 1774-77, signing the Declaration of Independence and serving for a time as president of the Board of War; speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1777-82; governor of Virginia in 1781-84; and in 1788 as a member of the Virginia Convention he actively opposed the ratification of the Federal Constitution by his state. William Henry Harrison received a classical education at Hampden-Sidney College, where he was a student in 1787-90, and began a medical course in Philadelphia, but the death of his father caused him to discontinue his studies, and in November 1791 he entered the army as ensign in the Tenth Regiment at Fort Washington, Cincinnati. In the following year he became a lieutenant, and subsequently acted as aide-de-camp to General Anthony Wayne in the campaign which ended in the battle of Fallen Timbers on the 10th of August 1794. He was promoted to a captaincy in 1797 and for a brief period served as commander of Fort Washington, but resigned from the army in June 1798. Soon afterwards he succeeded Winthrop Sargent as secretary of the Northwest Territory.
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In the War of 1812, after the failure of Gen. William Hull, Harrison was made commander in the Northwest. Taking Detroit (Sept. 29, 1813), he advanced to defeat Gen. Henry Procter and establish American hegemony in the West at the battle of the Thames River on Oct. 5, 1813 (see Thames, battle of the), in which Tecumseh was killed. Later Harrison concluded treaties with Native Americans—Greenville (1814) and Spring Wells (1815)—that ushered in an era of peace and white expansion in the Old Northwest. He served in the House of Representatives (1816–19) and the Senate (1825–28). He was appointed (1828) minister to Colombia but was recalled (1829) by Andrew Jackson.
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