William Henry Harrison

On February 9, 1773, William Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the United States, was born.

Harrison was one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence. He had a remarkable achievement in the Second British War. He won the presidential campaign in 1840 and was 68 years old when he took office. He felt cold at the inauguration ceremony, then turned into pneumonia, and died in the White House on April 4th, in January, the shortest president in the history of the United States. Harrison's grandson, Benjamin Harrison (also known as his great-grandfather) was the twenty-third president of the United States, his great-grandfather was the next president of the United States, and his father, the son of Adam, became the president of the United States.