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William Henry Harrison
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The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
— Inaugural address (March 4, 1841)
William Henry Harrison
President of the United States in 1841
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Lived 1773–1841, aged 68United States
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He won the presidency and died a month later — the briefest tenure in American history and the spark for the country's first constitutional crisis over what happens when a sitting president dies.
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William Henry Harrison was born February 9, 1773, in Charles City County, Virginia, the last president born a British subject before independence and a son of Founding Father Benjamin Harrison V. He made his name as a military officer: he fought at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794, led forces against Tecumseh's confederacy at Tippecanoe in 1811 (earning the nickname "Old Tippecanoe"), and commanded American troops to victory at the Battle of the Thames during the War of 1812. His political career began in 1798 as secretary of the Northwest Territory, and he served as governor of Indiana Te…
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William Henry Harrison
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I have determined never to remove a Secretary of the Treasury without communicating all the circumstances attending such removal to both Houses of Congress.
— Inaugural address (March 4, 1841)
William Henry Harrison
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There is no part of the means placed in the hands of the Executive which might be used with greater effect for unhallowed purposes than the control of the public press.
— Inaugural address (March 4, 1841)
William Henry Harrison
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The people of the District of Columbia are not the subjects of the people of the States, but free American citizens.
— Inaugural address (March 4, 1841)
William Henry Harrison
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Fellow-citizens, being fully invested with that high office to which the partiality of my countrymen has called me, I now take an affectionate leave of you.
— Inaugural address (March 4, 1841)
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