He served the shortest term of any president, but there’s so much more to William Henry Harrison than that fact.
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Here are some interesting tidbits on the ninth President of the United States.
- Before being elected president, Harrison was best known for defeating Shawnee Chief Tecumseh and his tribes in the Battle of Tippecanoe during Tecumseh’s War.
- He died just one month into his presidential term. Historians originally believed the cause was pneumonia, but now think it may have been typhoid fever.
- Harrison was the last president born before the American Revolution. His father signed the Declaration of Independence.
- His grandson, Benjamin Harrison, was the 23rd President of the United States.
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