On March 4, 1841, William Henry Harrison delivered what is the longest inaugural address in United States history, both in ...

Trump's second inauguration speech came out to 2,885 words — considerably longer than his 2017 address, though shorter than ...

Ironically, the coldest inauguration was just four years later, when President Ronald Reagan publicly took the oath for a second time. The morning started off at 4 below zero. By noon, it was just 7 ...

William Henry Harrison’s inaugural address in 1841 lasted an hour and 40 minutes in “cloudy, cold and blustery” weather, which Harrison braved “without a hat or overcoat,” according to ...

D.C. Those weather conditions have come to be associated with one of the most infamous presidential inauguration ceremonies in American history and are blamed for the demise of President William Henry ...

America’s 9th and Benjamin Harrison’s grandfather, William Henry Harrison, was the first to die in office. Many of the mourning traditions following a president’s death were established ...

“Not every president has to have a state funeral,” Hyde said. “This tradition dates back to William Henry Harrison in 1841—Benjamin Harrison’s grandfather—who was the first sitting ...

Perhaps the American president most likely remembered as little more than a footnote in history is William Henry Harrison. Outside of historians, Harrison is little remembered save for being, at the ...

In fourth place is the nation's ninth president, William Henry Harrison. Harrison was elected in 1841 at age 68, but his tenure as president was short-lived. He died 32 days into his first term ...