Their son John Scott Harrison would grow up to become a U. After Harrison resigned from the Army in , President John Adams named him secretary of the Northwest Territory, a region encompassing the present-day states of Indiana , Illinois , Michigan , Ohio, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. In , Congress created the Indiana Territory from part of the Northwest Territory, and Harrison became governor of the new territory. In this position, he negotiated treaties with American Indian tribes in which they agreed to hand over millions of acres of land.
Not all tribes were happy with these treaties, however, and Harrison subsequently called in U. Although the U. After a dozen years as governor of the Indiana Territory, Harrison rejoined the Army when the War of began. He was made a brigadier general and placed in charge of the Army of the Northwest. Harrison scored a decisive victory against the British and their Indian allies in at the Battle of the Thames, near the southern section of present-day Ontario, Canada.
The chieftain Tecumseh was killed during the battle, and the confederation of Indian tribes he led never again posed a serious threat in the region. In , Harrison resigned from the Army as a major general, and moved with his family to a farm in North Bend, Ohio. Two years later, Harrison was elected to the U. House of Representatives from Ohio. In , he became a state senator.
Starting in , he spent three years as a U. He resigned his senate seat in to become U. In , Harrison was a Whig Party candidate for the U. Harrison lost the election to Democrat Martin Van Buren Four years later, the Whigs nominated Harrison again, with Virginia politician John Tyler as his running mate.
His supporters used log cabin and cider barrel imagery on campaign memorabilia, including log-cabin-shaped bottles of whiskey from the E. Van Buren, who was unpopular with Americans for his mismanagement of the financial crisis known as the Panic of , was painted by his opponents as an out-of-touch, wealthy elite. In fact, he came from humble roots while Harrison was well-educated and hailed from an established family.
However, the tactics worked: Harrison won the presidency with an electoral vote of and approximately 53 percent of the popular vote. The year-old Harrison was sworn into office on March 4, Garfield Chester A. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Help inform the discussion Support the Miller Center. University of Virginia Miller Center. William Harrison: Death of the President.
Breadcrumb U. Upon his death, Harrison left behind a widow, Anna, and three surviving children. His grandson, Benjamin, became the 23rd president of the United States in Unlike his grandfather, Benjamin Harrison served a full term, but lost his re-election bid to Grover Cleveland in But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! He had finished with career home runs, one shy of the all-time record set by Babe Ruth.
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