The future congressman also ran his own farm before attending law school. In 1926, William Henry Harrison followed in the footsteps of his forbearers, going into the family occupation of politics by ...

WASHINGTON – March 4, 1841, is remembered as more than just a bitterly cold and wet day in Washington, D.C. Those weather conditions have come to be associated with one of the most infamous ...

William Henry Harrison, an American military officer and politician, was the ninth president of the United States, the oldest president to be elected at the time. On his 32nd day, he became the ...

Presidential inaugurations mark some of the most defining moments in U.S. history, allowing presidents to establish traditions and reinvigorate the American people. Some inaugurations make history ...

The eighth president had a commode fit for a commander-in-chief at Lindenwald, his home in Kinderhook, New York.

Johnson was sworn in by U.S. District Court Judge Sarah T. Hughes on Air Force One, just hours after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. The plane ...

On March 4, 1841, William ... suggested Harrison didn’t die of pneumonia at all, but rather enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever) that he contracted from the White House water supply ...

William Henry King served as both a congressman and a United States senator from the Beehive ... Before leaving office, Senator William H. King went down to the White House for a meeting with ...

On March 4, 1841, William Henry Harrison delivered ... after studying notes written by Harrison’s own doctor, had published findings in 2014 that suggested Harrison didn’t die of pneumonia at all, but ...

On March 4, 1841, William Henry Harrison gave ... A study in 2014 suggested Harrison died of enteric fever from the White House water supply, not pneumonia, as once widely believed.

William Henry Harrison gave the longest inaugural address in history. Afterward, the new president, a former Army major general, rode back to the White House on horseback, without a hat or overcoat.