He died of typhoid fever!The Fix William Henry Harrison didn’t die of pneumonia. And a bunch of other things I didn’t know about our 9th president.

Slate ’s new podcast about presidential history revisits the election of 1840, when William Henry Harrison became the first candidate to actually campaign for the job.

PostEverything How William Henry Harrison invented the inaugural parade And why presidents should dress for the weather.

Background/Early Life • Born in 1773, William Harrison grew up as the youngest of seven children during the Revolutionary War. • Harrison’s family was part of Virginia’s elite, friendly ...

William Henry Harrison's bid for the presidency in 1840 changed how campaigns were run.

Felled by illness a month after delivering history's longest inaugural speech, President William Henry Harrison left little legacy as commander-in-chief. But as Supreme Commander of the Army of ...

William Harrison, a frontier army general whose fame (and nickname) was assured at the battle of Tippecanoe, spent only 32 days in office before dying.

The candidacy of William Henry Harrison indicates that American politics were moving in a more populist direction as the country expanded. A twoterm congressman and former territorial governor, ...

The statue of William Henry Harrison in Downtown's Piatt Park. Vamoose, cousin Billy. Take your horse, William Henry Harrison, and ride out of town. Don't stop until you hit North Bend.

The election of America's 9th president was a most modern campaign - yet William Henry Harrison barely got to serve ...

William Harrison, a frontier army general whose fame (and nickname) was assured at the battle of Tippecanoe, spent only 32 days in office before dying.

William Henry Harrison, is shown in this undated portrait, served the shortest presidential term in American history. Harrison was in office only 31 days before he died of pneumonia April 4, 1841.