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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Harrison, William H.
Anthony Wayne. Appointed 3rd aide-de-camp to “Mad” Anthony, Harrison served under the General in the Indian Wars of the Northwest Territory from 1793 to 1795.
| Daniel Webster served Harrison and his successor in the White House, John Tyler, as Secretary of State. However, he wasn’t Tippecanoe’s first choice. Who turned down Harrison’s request to take reins of the State Department? | William Henry Harrison: Old Tippecanoe
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Henry Clay. Clay was the front-runner for the Whig presidential nomination early on in 1840. He was also a member of the Masons. Anti-Masonic factions, which were plentiful and powerful at the convention, managed to whittle away at Clay’s support until Harrison managed to garner enough votes to secure the nomination. In spite of the major disappointment, Clay played the role of faithful party man and campaigned for Harrison. As a sort of consolation prize, and probably out of appreciation, Harrison offered the State post to Clay, but he declined the position. John Tyler, Harrison running mate, was placed on the ticket partly because he was a pro-Clay delegate, for even though he lost the nomination, Clay still wielded a lot of power and could have made it difficult for Harrison to win. Crittendon served in the Harrison and Tyler administrations as Attorney General. Scott, who would soon be the hero of the Mexican War, was one of the other front-runners for the Whig nomination. Although it eluded the grasp of “Old Fuss and Feathers” in 1840, he was the Whig candidate in 1852, losing to one of his former subordinates in the Mexican War, Franklin Pierce.
Tecumseh. Two years earlier, Harrison had faced a band of warriors organized by Tecumseh and led by his brother, the Prophet, in the Battle of Tippecanoe. This, of course, is where William earned his most famous nickname. In the Battle of the Thames, Harrison led a force of almost 2500 men, comprised of Kentucky volunteers and friendly Indians, among others, against a force of 1700 British and Indians. This victory helped secure the Northwest for the United States and made Harrison a household name, or as much as one could be in 1813.
| Harrison made a name for himself as a military commander and war hero. This, however, was not his first choice of profession. What did William originally intend to become? | William Henry Harrison: Old Tippecanoe
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Physician. Home-schooled by tutors at his family’s plantation, Harrison enrolled in Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, at the ripe old age of 14. After dropping out due to religious differences (Harrison was a lifelong Episcopalian and the school was becoming decidedly Methodist), he enrolled at the prestigious University of Pennsylvania Medical School in Philadelphia in 1791. His father’s death shortly thereafter permanently curtailed his medical studies, as he had no money to continue. He joined the army in August of 1791, and the rest, they say, is history.
| Born in 1773, William grew up a child of the Revolution. During the war, the Harrison homestead was attacked by a unit of Hessian troops and American loyalists. Who was the commander of this band of merry men? | William Henry Harrison: Old Tippecanoe
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Benedict Arnold . As a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Harrison’s father, Benjamin V, had a big bulls-eye on his chest. Maybe not as big as the yellow streak of traitor that Arnold had on his back, but dangerous, nonetheless. The family had been forewarned of the impending attack, and was able to escape unharmed. Their property, however, was a total loss, as they lost all their possessions, including furnishings and livestock. The family went to live with William’s grandfather, Benjamin IV, in Richmond, where he was serving as governor of Virginia.
| Who made the following statement about William Henry Harrison: “He has the confidence of the forces without a parallel in our History except in the case of George Washington in the revolution”? | William Henry Harrison: Old Tippecanoe
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Richard M. Johnson. Johnson made this statement while a major serving under Harrison in the War of 1812. He had fought with Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe, where he was severely wounded. Johnson was also Vice-President in Martin Van Buren’s administration, but wasn’t on the ticket in 1840. A native of Kentucky, Johnson had angered the folks in power in the South by taking a slave as his common-law wife and raising their children as free individuals. He had originally been placed in the ticket in 1836 by then-President Andrew Jackson, to whom Johnson was a loyal supporter.
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