The president was William Henry Harrison, who had been sworn in on March 4, 1841. On the day the news article was published, April 1, 1841, Harrison actually was fighting for his life.

General William Henry Harrison led Americans to victory in the Battle of the Thames on this day in history, Oct. 5, 1813, routing the British and Native forces led by Shawnee chief Tecumseh.

Whether you learned it in school, or through a jaunty musical number on The Simpsons, the sad tale of William Henry Harrison is one of the more unique in American history.Before being elected the ...

William Henry Harrison didn’t die of pneumonia. And a bunch of other things I didn’t know about our 9th president. March 7, 2016. By Chris Cillizza. I am an unapologetic political nerd.

William Harrison, a frontier army general whose fame (and nickname) was assured at the battle of Tippecanoe, spent only 32 days in office before dying.

William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, is buried in North Bend, 15 miles west of Cincinnati. The tomb is marked by a 60-foot limestone brick obelisk on a hilltop along U ...

At dawn on March 4, 1841, an artillery unit dressed in Revolutionary War uniforms fired a 26-gun salute on the Mall — one shot for each state. The gunfire signaled the Inauguration Day of Ame… ...

William Henry Harrison 9th president (1841) Staff Writer. The Columbus Dispatch. Background/Early Life • Born in 1773, William Harrison grew up as the youngest of seven children during the ...

From William Henry Harrison’s shortest term to Barack Obama’s historic presidency, this timeline covers over 160 years of American leadership.

No one as old as William Henry Harrison had ever run for president. Even his supporters knew that was a problem. Two presidential candidates face off in a rematch. One candidate, his affluent ...

William Henry Harrison Park was included as a line item in state lawmakers" "super duper fund," a one-time pot of $700 million to be allocated to various community projects and initiatives ...