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Happy Birthday to William Henry Harrison 🇺🇸, born #OTD 1773!

William Henry Harrison 🇺🇸 holds the record for shortest Presidency - one month.
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8 Presidents were born as British subjects in British America 🇬🇧
- George Washington
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- John Quincy Adams
- Andrew Jackson
- William Henry Harrison

The 1st American born President was Martin Van Buren (1782)
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William Henry Harrison 🇺🇸 is 1 of 8 Presidents to have come from Virginia.
The others:
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
John Tyler
Zachary Taylor
Woodrow Wilson

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William Henry Harrison 🇺🇸 is one of five US Presidents 🇺🇸 who served during the War of 1812:
- Andrew Jackson
- William Henry Harrison
- John Tyler
- Zachary Taylor
- James Buchanan
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When William Henry Harrison 🇺🇸 joined the military, the man who signed off on his commission was none other than......

George Washington 🇺🇸.

Washington was a friend of Harrison's deceased father, Benjamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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William Henry Harrison's 🇺🇸 political legacy is his passion for getting federal aid for disabled veterans and surviving families of those killed in war.

He would even invite to dinner the widows and children of his dead comrades
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William Henry Harrison 🇺🇸 and his grandson, Benjamin Harrison 🇺🇸.
The only time a grandfather and grandson were President.
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One of the angles pushed by the William Henry Harrison 🇺🇸 and John Tyler 🇺🇸 ticket in the 1840 Election was their heritage: Both of their fathers fought "side by side in maintaining the rights of their country in the days of the Revolution."
- John Tyler 🇺🇸
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William Henry Harrison 🇺🇸 was one of the first presidential candidates to go out and give campaign speeches and hold rallies.
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Due to constant attacks by Democrats about his age and health, Whig leaders asked William Henry Harrison's 🇺🇸 doctor to release a public report on his health and fitness - a Presidential first!

The doctor declared him to have "bodily vigor as good as most men his age."
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The cover of the 1840 Whig Party booklet was able to be torn off & posted for election purposes. Promoting William Henry Harrison and John Tyler 🇺🇸, it also showed his opponent, President Martin Van Buren 🇺🇸.
Behind Van Buren stands former President Andrew Jackson 🇺🇸
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William Henry Harrison 🇺🇸 and his horse "Whitey."

John Quincy Adams 🇺🇸 wasn't a fan, apparently calling Whitey "a mean horse."
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The “Seal of the President” during the administrations of Martin Van Buren 🇺🇸, William Henry Harrison 🇺🇸, John Tyler, and Zachary Taylor 🇺🇸
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William Henry Harrison 🇺🇸 was the only president who studied to become a medical doctor
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“The broad foundation upon which our Constitution rests being the people—a breath of theirs having made, as a breath can unmake, change, or modify it—it can be assigned to none of the great divisions of government but to that of democracy.”
- William Henry Harrison 🇺🇸
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