Due to his military career, William Henry Harrison became the frontrunner of the Whig Party—a new political faction assembled by opposition to Jackson. Despite his aristocratic Virginian roots, the ...

1840: Whigs: William Henry Harrison In 1840 the Whig Party ran a "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" campaign in which they presented their presidential candidate, William Henry Harrison, a Virginia ...

William Henry Harrison, an American military officer and politician, was the ninth president of the United States, the oldest president to be elected at the time. On his 32nd day, he became the ...

President William Henry Harrison died exactly one month after he delivered a nearly two hour inaugural address in the rain and cold.

When John Tyler assumed the presidency upon the death of William Henry Harrison, critics referred to him as “His Accidency.” At fifty-one, Tyler was the youngest man yet to become president. Tyler, ...

Grandson of William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison managed to ... For the election of 1888, Harrison ran a "front porch campaign." Staying at home in Indianapolis, he would speak ...

Due to his shortened presidency, Harrison is widely remembered for his 1840 campaign slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too," regarded by many historians as one of the most popular slogans in American ...