Subject:  American Minute - Feb. 9 - "Tippecanoe and Tyler too"
Date:  Thu, 8 Feb 2007 22:09:04 -0600
American Minute with Bill Federer

February 9

"Tippecanoe and Tyler too" was the campaign slogan of 9th President
William Henry Harrison, born FEBRUARY 9, 1773.

He was the first President to die in office, serving the shortest
term of only 30 days.

The son of Benjamin Harrison, signer the Declaration, and
grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd President, William Henry
Harrison was aide-de-camp to General "Mad Anthony" Wayne, who
defeated the British and Indian forces at the Battle of Fallen
Timbers.

Harrison became Secretary of the Northwest Territory - 260,000
square miles from which was formed Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota.

He was the area's first delegate to Congress and in 1801 became
Governor of the Indiana Territory. Harrison disrupted Chief
Tecumseh's confederation at the Battle of Tippecanoe.

In his Inaugural Address, 1841, William Henry Harrison stated:

"I deem the present occasion sufficiently important and solemn to
justify me in expressing to my fellow citizens a profound reverence
for the Christian religion, and a thorough conviction that sound
morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious
responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting
happiness."



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