William Henry Harrison US Mint Medal Coin 9th President March 4 to April 4, 1841

Description: US MINT Presidential Medallion 1-5/16 Inch SEALED William Harrison. William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States. Harrison died just 31 days after his inauguration in 1841, and had the shortest presidency in United States history. He was also the first United States president to die in office, and a brief constitutional crisis resulted as presidential succession was not then fully defined in the United States Constitution. Harrison was the last president born as a British subject in the Thirteen Colonies and was the paternal grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States. Among Harrison's most enduring legacies is the series of treaties that he negotiated and signed with Indian leaders during his tenure as the Indiana territorial governor.[7] As part of the treaty negotiations, the tribes ceded large tracts of land in the west which provided additional acreage for purchase and settlement by the nation.[33][135] Harrison's long-term impact on American politics includes his campaigning methods, which laid the foundation for modern presidential campaign tactics.[136] Harrison died nearly penniless, and Congress voted his wife Anna a presidential widow's pension of $25,000,[137] one year of Harrison's salary (equivalent to about $657,000 in 2021).[138] She also received the right to mail letters free of charge.[139] Freehling refers to Harrison as "the most dominant figure in the evolution of the Northwest territories into the Upper Midwest today".[140] Harrison, age 68 at the time of his inauguration, was the oldest person to assume the U.S. presidency, a distinction he held until 1981, when Ronald Reagan was inaugurated at age 69.[141] Harrison's son John Scott Harrison represented Ohio in the House of Representatives between 1853 and 1857.[142] Harrison's grandson Benjamin Harrison of Indiana served as the 23rd president from 1889 to 1893, making William and Benjamin Harrison the only grandparent-grandchild pair of presidents.[143] Honors and tributes Main article: List of memorials to William Henry Harrison Several monuments and memorial statues have been erected in tribute to Harrison. There are public statues of him in downtown Indianapolis,[144] Cincinnati's Piatt Park,[145] the Tippecanoe County Courthouse,[146] Harrison County, Indiana,[147] and Owen County, Indiana.[148] Numerous counties and towns also bear his name. The Village of North Bend, Ohio, honors Harrison every year with a parade to celebrate his birthday.[149] The Gen. William Henry Harrison Headquarters in Franklinton, Ohio, commemorates Harrison. The house was his military headquarters from 1813 to 1814.[150] On February 19, 2009, the U.S. Mint released the ninth coin in the Presidential $1 Coin Program, bearing Harrison's likeness. He was born into the Harrison family of Virginia at their homestead, Berkeley plantation in Charles City County, Virginia; he was a son of Benjamin Harrison V—a Founding Father of the United States. During his early military career, Harrison participated in the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers, an American military victory that ended the Northwest Indian War. Later, he led a military force against Tecumseh's confederacy at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, where he earned the nickname "Old Tippecanoe". He was promoted to major general in the Army during the War of 1812, and led American infantry and cavalry to victory at the Battle of the Thames in Upper Canada.

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