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 ...

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

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 ...

the party met at the church to put together a ticket that would deny Van Buren a second term. Over several days they picked William Henry Harrison for President, and John Tyler for Vice President.

William Henry Harrison was president of the United States for only 32 ... Twenty-two years later, in 1836, Harrison made an unsuccessful run for president. A member of the Whig Party, he campaigned ...

When John Tyler assumed the presidency upon the death of William Henry Harrison, critics referred to him as “His ... was largely at odds with the nationalistic policies of his adopted Whig Party. He ...

William Henry Harrison III, like his grandfather ... A former chairman of the Wyoming Republican Party, Wold had been the GOP nominee for the United States Senate against Senator Gale McGee in 1964, ...

Following the sudden death of William Henry Harrison, Vice President John Tyler assumed the presidency. "His Accidency" quickly ran afoul of his own party; they repudiated him, and some Whigs in ...