William Harrison ... The Whigs, led by Henry Clay, fielded Harrison as a war hero candidate in 1840. During the campaign, they downplayed Harrison's genteel origins and portrayed him as a hard ...

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 ...

Harrison served in the War of 1812 and rose to the rank of Major General in the U.S. Army. He was also the son of one of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Harrison V. President Harrison was the first ...

He took office in 1841, after William Henry Harrison died. And he still has one ... which had been neglected during the Civil ...

Following the sudden death of William Henry Harrison, Vice President John Tyler ... A Southern states' rights advocate, he died during the Civil War while serving in the Confederate Congress ...

On Memorial Day, we put flowers on the graves of our fallen war heroes. On Christmas ... ignore that Presidents Ronald Reagan and William Henry Harrison were also born in February.