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See also:HARRISON, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY (1773–1841) , ninth See also:president of the See also:United States, was See also:born at See also:Berkeley, See also:Charles See also:City See also:county, See also:Virginia, on the 9th of See also:February 1773, the third son of See also:Benjamin Harrison (c. 1740-1761). His See also:father was See also:long prominent in Virginia politics, and became a member of the Virginia See also:House of Burgesses in 1764, opposing See also:Patrick Henry's See also:Stamp See also:Act resolutions in the following See also:year; he was a member of the See also:Continental See also:Congress in 1774–1777, See also:signing the See also:Declaration of See also:Independence and serving for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time as president of the See also:Board of See also:War; See also:speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1777–1782; See also:governor of Virginia in 1781–1754; and in 1788 as a member of the Virginia See also:Convention he actively opposed the ratification of the Federal Constitution by his See also:state. William
Henry Harrison received a classical See also:education at See also:Hampden-See also:Sidney See also:College, where he was a student in 1787–1790, and began a medical course in See also:Philadelphia, but the See also:death of his father caused him to discontinue his studies, and in See also:November 1791 he entered the See also:army as See also:ensign in the Tenth See also:Regiment at Fort See also:Washington, See also:Cincinnati. In the following year he became a See also:lieutenant, and subsequently acted as aide-de-See also:camp to See also:General See also:Anthony See also:Wayne in the See also:campaign which ended in the See also:battle of Fallen Timbers on the loth of See also:August 1794. He was promoted to a captaincy in 1797 and for a brief See also:period served as See also:commander of Fort Washington, but resigned from the army in See also:June 1798. Soon afterwards he succeeded See also:Winthrop See also:Sargent as secretary of the See also:North-See also:west Territory. In 1799 he was chosen by the Jeffersonian party of this territory as the delegate of the territory in Congress. While serving in this capacity he devised a See also:plan for disposing of the public lands upon favourable terms to actual settlers, and also assisted in the See also:division of the North-west Territory. It was his ambition to become governor of the more populous eastern portion, which retained the See also:original name, but instead, in See also:January 1800, President See also:John See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams appointed him governor of the newly created See also:Indiana Territory, which comprised until 1So9 a much larger See also:area than the See also:present state of the same name. (See INDIANA: See also:History.) He was not sworn into See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office until the loth of January 18o1, and was governor until See also:September 1812. Among the legislative See also:measures of his See also:administration may be mentioned the attempted modification of the See also:slavery clause of the See also:ordinance of 1787 by means of an See also:indenture See also:law—a policy which Harrison favoured; more effective See also:land See also:laws; and legislation for the more equitable treatment of the See also:Indians and for preventing the See also:sale of liquor to them. In 1803 Harrison also became a See also:special See also:commissioner to treat with the Indians " on the subject of boundary or lands," and as such negotiated various See also:treaties—at Fort Wayne (1803 and 1809), See also:Vincennes (1804 and 18og) and Grouseland (18o5)—by which the See also:southern See also:part of the present state of Indiana and portions of the present states of See also:Illinois, See also:Wisconsin and See also:Missouri were opened to See also:settlement. For a few months after the division in 1804 of the See also:Louisiana See also:Purchase into the See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans Territory and the Louisiana Territory he also acted as governor of the Louisiana Territory—all of the Louisiana Purchase N. of the See also:thirty-third parallel, his See also:jurisdiction then being the greatest in extent ever exercised by a territorial See also:official in the United States.
The See also:Indian cessions of 1809, along the See also:Wabash See also:river, aroused the hostility of See also:Tecumseh (q.v.) and his See also:brother, familiarly known as " The See also:Prophet," who were attempting to combine the tribes between the See also:Ohio and the See also:Great Lakes in opposition to the encroachment of the whites. Several fruitless conferences between the governor and the Indian chiefs, who were believed to be encouraged by the See also:British, resulted in Harrison's advance with a force of See also:militia and regulars to the Tippecanoe river, where (near the present See also:Lafayette, Ind.) on the 7th of November 1811 he won over the Indians a victory which established his military reputation and was largely responsible for his subsequent nomination and See also:election to the See also:presidency of the United States. From one point of view the battle of Tippecanoe may be regarded as the opening skirmish of the war of 1812. When in the summer of 1812 open hostilities with Great See also:Britain began, Harrison was appointed by Governor Charles See also:Scott of See also:Kentucky See also:major-general in the militia of that state. A few See also:weeks later (22nd August 1812) he was made brigadier-general in the See also:regular U.S. army, and soon afterwards was put in command of all the troops in the north-west, and on the 2nd of See also:March 1813 he was promoted to the See also:rank of major-general. General See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Winchester, whom Harrison had ordered to prepare to See also:cross See also:Lake See also:Erie on the See also:ice and surprise Fort See also:Malden, turned back to See also:- RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)
rescue the threatened See also:American settlement at Frenchtown (now See also:Monroe), on the See also:Raisin river, and there on the 22nd of January 1813 was forced to surrender to See also:Colonel Henry A. See also:Proctor. Harrison's offensive operations being thus checked, he accomplished nothing that summer except to hold in check Proctor, who (May 1–5) besieged him at Fort Meigs, the American advanced
See also:Post after the disaster of the river Raisin. After Lieutenant O. H. See also:Perry's See also:naval victory on the loth of September 1813, Harrison no longer had to remain on the defensive; he advanced to See also:Detroit, re-occupied the territory surrendered by General William See also:Hull, and on the 5th of See also:October administered a crushing defeat to Proctor at the battle of the See also:Thames.
In 1814 Harrison received no active assignments to service, and on this See also:account and because the secretary of war (John See also:Armstrong) issued an See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to one of Harrison's subordinates without consulting him, he resigned his See also:commission. Armstrong accepted the resignation without consulting President See also:Madison, but the president later utilized Harrison in negotiating with the north-western Indians, the greater part of whom agreed (22nd See also:July 1814) to a second treaty of See also:Greenville, by which they were to become active See also:allies of the United States, should hostilities with Great Britain continue. This treaty publicly marked an American policy of See also:alliance with these Indians and caused the British See also:peace negotiators at See also:Ghent to abandon them. In the following year Harrison held another See also:conference at Detroit with these tribes in order to See also:settle their future territorial relations with the United States.
From 1816 to 1819 Harrison was a representative in Congress, and as such worked in behalf of more liberal See also:pension laws and a better militia organization, including a See also:system of general military education, of improvements in the See also:navigation of the Ohio, and of See also:relief for purchasers of public lands, and for the strict construction of the See also:power of Congress over the Territories, particularly in regard to slavery. In accordance with this view in 1819 he voted against Tallmadge's See also:amendment (restricting the See also:extension of slavery) to the enabling act for the See also:admission of Missouri. He also delivered forcible speeches upon the death of Kosciusko and upon General See also:Andrew See also:Jackson's course in the Floridas, favouring a partial censure of the latter.
Harrison was a member of the Ohio See also:senate in 1819-1821, and was an unsuccessful See also:candidate for the See also:National House of Representatives in 1822, when his Missouri See also:vote helped to cause his defeat; he was a presidential elector in 1824, supporting Henry See also:Clay, and from 1825 to 1828 was a member of the United States Senate. In 1828 after unsuccessful efforts to secure for him the command of the army, upon the death of Major-General See also:Jacob See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown, and the nomination for the See also:vice-president, on the See also:ticket with John See also:Quincy Adams, his See also:friends succeeded in getting Harrison appointed as the first See also:minister of the United States to See also:Colombia. He became, however, an See also:early See also:sacrifice to Jackson's spoils system, being recalled within less than a year, but not until he had involved himself in some awkward See also:diplomatic complications with See also:Bolivar's autocratic See also:government.
For some years after his return from Colombia he lived in retirement at North See also:Bend, Ohio. He was occasionally " mentioned " for governor, senator or representative, by the See also:anti-Jackson forces, and delivered a few addresses on agricultural or See also:political topics. Later he became clerk of the See also:court of See also:common pleas of See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton county—a lucrative position that was then most acceptable to him. Early in 1835 Harrison began to be mentioned as a suitable presidential candidate, and later in the year he was nominated for the presidency at large public meetings in See also:Pennsylvania, New See also:York and See also:Maryland. In the election of the following year he attracted a large part of the Whig and ipIti-Masonic vote of the See also:Middle and Western states and led among the candidates opposing See also:Van Buren, but received only 73 electoral votes while Van Buren received 170. His unexpected strength, See also:clue largely to his clear, if non-committal, political See also:record, rendered him the most " available " candidate for the Whig party for the campaign of 1840, and he was nominated by the Whig convention at See also:Harrisburg, Pa., in See also:December 1839, his most formidable opponent being Henry Clay, who, though generally regarded as the real See also:leader of his party, was less
available " because as a See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
mason he would alienate former members of the old Anti-Masonic party, and as an See also:advocate of a protective See also:tariff would repel many Southern voters. The convention adjourned without adopting any " See also:platform " of principles, the party shrewdly deciding to make its campaign merely on theissue of whether the Van Buren administration should be continued in power and thus to take full See also:advantage of the popular discontent with the administration, to which was attributed the responsibility for the panic of 1837 and the subsequent business depression. Largely to attract the votes of Democratic malcontents the Whig convention nominated for the vice-presidency John See also:Tyler, who had previously been identified with the Democratic party. The campaign was marked by the extraordinary See also:enthusiasm exhibited by the Whigs, and by their skill in attacking Van Buren without binding themselves to any definite policy. Because of his fame as a frontier See also:hero, of the circumstance that a part of his See also:home at North Bend, Ohio, had formerly been a See also:log See also:cabin, and of the See also:story that See also:cider, not See also:wine, was served on his table, Harrison was derisively called by his opponents the " log cabin and hard cider " candidate; the See also:term was eagerly accepted by the Whigs, in whose processions See also:miniature log cabins were carried and at whose meetings hard cider was served, and the campaign itself has become known in history as the "log cabin and hard cider campaign." Harrison's See also:canvass was conspicuous for the immense Whig processions and See also:mass meetings, the numerous " stump " speeches (Harrison himself addressing meetings at See also:Dayton, See also:Chillicothe, See also:Columbus and other places), and the use of campaign songs, of party insignia, and of campaign cries (such as " Tippecanoe and Tyler too ") ; and in the election he won by an overwhelming See also:majority of 234 electoral votes to 6o See also:cast for Van Buren.
President Harrison was inaugurated on the 4th of March 1841. He See also:chose for his See also:cabinet See also:Daniel See also:Webster as secretary of state, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Ewing as secretary of the See also:treasury, John See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
Bell as secretary of war, See also:George E. See also:Badger as secretary of the See also:navy, See also:Francis See also:Granger as postmaster-general, and John J. See also:Crittenden as See also:attorney-general. He survived his inauguration only one See also:month, dying on the 4th of See also:April 1841, and being succeeded by the vice-president, John Tyler. The immediate cause of his death was an attack of See also:pneumonia, but the disease was aggravated by the excitement attending his sudden See also:change in circumstances and the incessant demands of office seekers. After temporary interment at Washington, his See also:body was removed to the See also:tomb at North Bend, Ohio, where it now lies. A few of Harrison's public addresses survive, the most notable being A Discourse on the See also:Aborigines of the Ohio. It has been said of him: " He was not a great See also:man, but he had lived in a great time, and he had been a leader in great things." He was the first territorial delegate in the Congress of the United States and was the author of the first step in the development of the See also:country's later See also:homestead policy; the first presidential candidate to be selected upon the ground of " expediency " alone; and the first president to See also:die in office. In 1795 he married See also:Anna Symmes (1775-1864), daughter of John See also:Cleves Symmes. Their See also:grandson, Benjamin Harrison, was the twenty-third president of the United States.
End of Article: HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY (1773–1841)
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