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William Henry Harrison was born the youngest of seven kids in 1773, at his family's plantation in Charles City County, Virginia. His father, Benjamin Harrison, was into politics and was a statesman. His mother, Elizabeth Basset, was a housewife. He studied classics and history at Hampden-Sydney College, and then began the study of medicine in Richmond. In 1791, however, he switched interests. He decided to pursue his military career. Harrison wanted to be a soldier when he was eighteen. He asked none other than George Washington if he could become a soldier. Washington decided to make him an officer, because he wanted Harrison to rise high in the army. A week later, Harrison received his officer uniform, complements of George Washington. Harrison was in the First U.S. Infantry, and was sent on duty to the Northwest Territory. In 1794 he was cited for bravery after fighting in the Battle of Fallen Timbers against a group of Native American peoples.
In 1800, Harrison pressed legislation to create the Indiana Territory, of which he was appointed governor. It also added considerably to his reputation. Harrison was one of several Whig candidates for president in 1836. He received a large portion of the popular vote, but didn't win. In 1799 he was elected territorial delegate to the Congress of the United States. Harrison resigned from the army in 1798 and became Secretary of the Northwest Territory. In 1839 the Whig national convention chose him as the party's candidate for the 1840 presidential election. Believing the British in Canada had supported Tecumseh's alliance, Harrison welcomed the War of 1812 as a chance to drive the British from Canada. As I said before, to attract the votes of farmers and frontiersmen, they hyped up his persona as a man of the people, a Westerner, and a fighter of Native Americans. When Shawnee chief Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa formed an alliance of Native American Peoples to oppose further conquest of their lands, Harrison came back to the army to lead a powerful American force against them in the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. To me, this was his first major mistake in his political career. As delegate, he persuaded Congress to divide the public lands of the territory into small homestead lots.
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