NOUN
- 9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after (1773-1841)
How To Use William Henry Harrison In A Sentence
- Weed thought General William Henry Harrison, one of the candidates in eighteen thirty-six, might be the man the Whigs needed.
- And when he ascended to the presidency following the death of William Henry Harrison, being dubbed "His Accidency" made it a lock.
- The portrayal of the wealthy, plantation-born William Henry Harrison as a plain-spoken general who desired only a simple life in a log cabin with plenty of hard cider is cited as evidence that stories need not be true to be effective.
- This week in our series, we discuss the presidency of William Henry Harrison.
- Several items in the room belonged to William Henry Harrison: the bookcase, his well-used wooden bootjack, his walking stick, and the portrait of his wife Anna Symmes Harrison.
- At William Henry Harrison's March inauguration in 1841, he stepped to the podium without hat or overcoat, under a louring sky, his trouserlegs flapping in the bitter wind, and delivered the longest address on record.
