9.+William+Henry+Harrison

= William Henry Harrison =




 * **Born:** February 09, 1773 in Charles City County, Virginia, United States
 * **Died:** April 04, 1841 in United States, Washington, District of Columbia

William Henry Harrison attained national recognition at an early age for his military victory over Shawnee leader Tecumseh (1768–1813) at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. He enjoyed a long political career before winning the presidential election of 1840, but he died soon after taking office as the ninth president.

His father was one of the signers of The Declaration of Independence. He studied medicine before entering the U.S military. He served on campaigns against the Northwest territory. In 1799, Harrison became the Northwest Territory's first delegate to Congress. Harrison was appointed governor of the Indiana Territory. He had to win the trust of Native Americans while at the same time get as much of their land as he could for the government. In 1809, he negotiated a treaty that gave almost 2.9 million acres to the United States.

During the War of 1812, a conflict over trading between England and the United States, Harrison served in several military positions, including supreme commander of the Army of the Northwest. After many hard battles, he led the victorious Battle of the Thames in 1813 near Chatham, Ontarian. He received a hero's welcome by some, but others criticized his military performance. In May 1814, he resigned from the army and moved to a farm in Ohio. Between 1816 and 1829 Harrison served as a congressman, senator, and U.S. minister to Colombia.

Harrison became the Whig candidate for the presidential nomination in 1840. He was nominated as a military hero and a spokesman for development of the West. The Whig party created a strategy and set him to be as a man of the people for his accomplishment in the army.

Inauguration day was chilly and rainy, and the new president caught a cold that quickly developed into pneumonia. On April 4, 1841, after only one month in office, Harrison died in the White House.