William Henry Harrison

POLITICAL PARTY
Whig

RELIGION
Episcopalian

EDUCATION
Presbyterian Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia, & University of Pennsylvania

VITALS
5 ft 8 in / 162 lbs

CAREER
1791-97 Officer, U.S. Army, First American Regiment
1798 Secretary of Northwest Territory
1799-1801 Territorial Delegate to U.S. Congress
1801-13 Territorial Governor, Indiana
1811 Defeated Tecumseh at Tippecanoe River
1812-15 Major-General, Kentucky Militia; Commander, Army of the Northwest
1816-19 U.S. Representative, Ohio
1825-28 U.S. Senator, Ohio
1828-29 Minister to Colombia
1829-36 Farmer, North Bend, Ohio
1836 Unsuccessful Whig candidate for U.S. President
1836-40 Clerk of Courts, Hamilton County, Ohio

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
October 30 - November 19, 1840
Popular: Harrison 1,275,390 (53%) Martin Van Buren 1,128,854 (47%)
Electoral: Harrison 234 Van Buren 60

VICE PRESIDENT
John Tyler (1841)

ADMINISTRATION
Longest inaugural address, shortest term of office

FIRST LADY
Jane Irwin Harrison, daughter-in-law
Anna Symmes Harrison

“The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.”
Inaugural address, March 4, 1841

Portrait of William Harrison by James R. Lambdin, 1835.