But it wasn’t until William Henry Harrison ran in 1840 that a revolutionary campaign strategy featuring a novelty made in Attleboro made the button an essential part of running for the nation ...

DENVER—The most valuable campaign button that will emerge this political ... true populist campaign occurred during William Henry Harrison’s successful presidential bid in 1840, Krapf said.

There are three buttons from the 1896 campaign, in which Ohioan Republican ... Democrat Grover Cleveland and Republican Benjamin Harrison there are two identical medallions. The earliest item ...

The Whig campaign seized on the log cabin and hard cider image as a metaphor for Harrison's "frontier virtues." The country was festooned in banners and streamers with log cabin imagery.

The canvasser, working for a mayoral candidate, pinned a campaign button on Desenberg's lapel. "That got his interest, and he caught the bug," said Carol Desenberg, Desey's wife of 31 years.

Harrison won in a landslide ... Roosevelt used the same slogan in 1944 running for his fourth term. Campaign buttons have been around since George Washington but Lincoln was the first president ...

Campaign buttons, not so much. These days, political buttons seem hard to find. Most political campaigns are not producing them. Their supporters are not wearing them. “Campaign buttons are one ...

the log cabin - often with a cider barrel out front - was used as a Harrison campaign symbol on everything from buttons to whiskey bottles and sewing boxes.And, Attleboro got a piece of the action ...