About William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison is best known as the 9th President of the United States of America.
Born into a wealthy Virginia household in 1773, he enjoyed a relatively uneventful childhood. During his public life, he served in several political offices, including Governor of the Indiana Territory and America's first minister to Colombia. He fought Native Americans on many key fronts, securing their land for the federal government. He served in the army where he was promoted to General, and commanded troops in the War of 1812.
Depites these achivements, Harrison is probably best known for only two factoids: his 1840 Presidential slogan, "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too," and his unfortunate "death".
These two seemingly minor footnotes in the pages of history at first appear negligible, marking the existence of a mere placeholder in the life of the oval office. Textbooks read: "Here lived a man who served the shortest term of office, 30 days, in American presidential history, nothing more."
Harrison's mark on the annals of history, however, was more significant than most academics could have ever dreamed. His feigned demise, as well as his subsequent rise to power, is, to this day, an unmatched feat. And it is this era of Harrison's life, the unrecorded history, that Amanda Delcourt revealed to the world in her groundbreaking story.
The Triumph of William Henry Harrison expands the recounting of America's ninth President from footnote to titan.