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William Henry Harrison: Presidents
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Harrison's active campaigning obviously paid off, as this time he bested his again-opponent Martin Van Buren by and electoral college vote of 234 to 60. "Bill" Harrison became the ninth President of the United States of America.
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Harrison served as president for one month, during which he did call Congress into special session to enact the Whigs' active government program. Before that could happen, Harrison died of pneumonia in Washington, D.C.
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According to a legend, Tecumseh had placed a curse on Harrison, claiming that every President to be elected in a year ending with the number zero (which happens every 20 years) would die in office. This Curse of Tecumseh is sometimes called the "zero-year curse". Remarkably, though there is no documantary evidence to prove the curse was made, it in fact 'came true' for Harrison and for the next 6 eligible Presidents - Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Harding, Roosevelt and Kennedy - though the next 2 (Reagan and, so far, George W Bush) evaded it.
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