The first Whig to be elected president, he was also the first president to die in office
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Whig Party (United States) - Wikipedia  The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States. Four Presidents belonged to the Party while in office. .... Harrison served only 31 days and became the first President to die in office. He was succeeded by John Tyler, a Virginian and states' rights absolutist. Tyler vetoed the Whig...
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President Harrison dies after one month in office - Apr 04, 1841 ...  In 1816, he was elected to the House of Representatives and in 1825 to the Senate. ... At the inauguration of America's first Whig president, on March 4, 1841,...
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United States presidential election, 1840 - Wikipedia  The United States presidential election of 1840 was the 14th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, October 30, to Wednesday, December 2, 1840. It saw President Martin Van Buren fight for re-election during a time of great economic depression against a Whig Party unified for the first ... Taylor would also die in office, only serving for little more than a year, and his...
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William Henry Harrison - Wikipedia  William Henry Harrison, Sr. (February 9, 1773  April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States (1841), an American military officer and politician, and the last president born as a British subject. He was also the first president to die in office. ... Before election as president, Harrison served as the first territorial...
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William Henry Harrison - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com  He then became the first congressional delegate from the Northwest Territory, a region ... in 1840, but passed away a month after his inauguration, the first U.S. president to die in office. ... In 1836, Harrison was a Whig Party candidate for the U.S. presidency (the recently ... She was also given free postage on all her mail.
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Prologue: Selected Articles | National Archives  Tyler was convinced his Vice President's oath entitled him to discharge the succession duty. ... to the office of the President upon the death of an elected President.1 ... death of William Henry Harrison, Vice President John Tyler became the first .... in American history, Arthur drafted a proclamation on September 20 calling the...
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Andrew Jackson - Wikiquote  He was the first American president to have been a Democrat. ... The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it. Said to Martin Van Buren (8 July 1832) and quoted in The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren, published in Annual...
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Whig Party (United States) - Wikipedia  The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States. ... The Whig Party nominated several presidential candidates in 1836. ... became President after Taylor's death in 1850, was the last Whig president. ... in the 1856 presidential election, by which time the Whig Party had become...
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William Henry Harrison - Wikipedia  William Henry Harrison, Sr. (February 9, 1773  April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States (1841), an American military officer and politician, and the last president born as a British subject. He was also the first president to die in office. ... In 1824, the state legislature elected him to the U.S. Senate. He served...
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Zachary Taylor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Nov 8, 2005 ... He was the second president to die in office. .... July 4, 1850, Taylor fell ill with acute indigestion and was diagnosed by his physicians with cholera morbus. He ... Taylor's remains were exhumed and examined [1] for arsenic poisoning. ... White House Biography  Zachary Taylor State of the Union Address...
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The Strange fate of GW Bush - secretsigns / Spencer John Astrology  William Henry Harrison was the first U.S. President to die in office, and his Presidency ... His official cause of death was heart failure, but it is rumored that his wife .... It is said that the Prophet proclaimed, Harrison will not win this time to be the...
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William Henry Harrison - U.S. Representative, U.S. President ...  Apr 2, 2014 ... Born in Virginia on February 9, 1773, William Henry Harrison became the ninth president of the United States in 1841. Elected at age 67, he was then the oldest man to take the office, and became the first U.S. president to die in office. His one-month tenure was the shortest.
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William Henry Harrison - Wikipedia  William Henry Harrison, Sr. (February 9, 1773  April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States (1841), an American military officer and politician, and the last president born as a British subject. He was also the first president to die in office. ... However, Harrison died of pneumonia in April 1841, a month after taking...
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December 28, 1832, John C. Calhoun becomes the first vice ...  December 28, 1832, John C. Calhoun becomes the first vice president in U.S. history to ... between the people of South Carolina and President Andrew Jackson. .... He is the only Vice President in US history to resign because of criminal charges. .... 1865 (including Zombie John Adams, Metallo the Mechanical Man, and...
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Abraham Lincoln Pre-Presidential Political Timeline  By 1860 he became the first Republican to win a presidential election. The highly ... Wins election to Congress as Whig Party representative. DECEMBER 6...
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Rutherford B. Hayes - Touring Ohio  Rutherford Hayes was the first president to take the oath of office in the White House. He ... His father, and namesake, died 2 months before Rud, as his mother called him, was born. ... In 1864, while still in the army, he was elected to Congress. ... After winning a third term in 1875, the Republican Party chose Hayes as its...
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William Henry Harrison - Wikipedia  William Henry Harrison, Sr. (February 9, 1773  April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States (1841), an American military officer and politician, and the last president born as a British subject. He was also the first president to die in office. He was 68 years, 23 days old when inaugurated, the oldest president to take ... He was the grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, who served as the 23rd...
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Calhoun resigns vice presidency - Dec 28, 1832 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Calhoun resigns vice presidency on Dec 28, 1832. ... John C. Calhoun becomes the first vice president in U.S. history to resign the office. ... In 1828, he was again elected vice president while Andrew Jackson won the ... the first part of the war,and spent the second half preparing coastal defenses in the...
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Why Abraham Lincoln Was a Whig - University of Michigan  He joined the party as a young man, as soon as it was formed, and became ... Zachary Taylor, elected president on the Whig ticket in 1848 .... It was clear to him that "the world would be vastly benefitted by a total and final banishment from it of...
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Zachary Taylor - Wikipedia  Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784  July 9, 1850) was the 12th President of the United States ... The Whig Party convinced the reluctant Taylor to lead their ticket, despite his unclear platform and lack of interest in politics. ..... Taylor was also the second president to die in office, preceded by William Henry Harrison who...
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William Henry Harrison - Wikipedia  He was also the first president to die in office. He was 68 years, 23 days old when inaugurated, the oldest president to take office until Ronald Reagan in 1981. Harrison died on his 32nd day in office [a] of complications from pneumonia, serving the shortest tenure in United States presidential history.