Abigail Koontz. the curator for the Washington County Historical Society, details the history behind the Miller House on West ...

William Harrison ... and unbeknownst to Harrison, would be rejected by his successor and vice president, John Tyler. The Whigs, led by Henry Clay, fielded Harrison as a war hero candidate in ...

Due to his military career, William Henry Harrison became the frontrunner of the Whig Party—a new political faction assembled by opposition to Jackson. Despite his aristocratic Virginian roots, the ...

He took office in 1841, after William Henry Harrison died ... 175 years after his grandfather left the White House in 1845.