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	William Henry Harrison - Search View - MSN Encarta
		William Henry Harrison was born on February 9, 1773, and grew up on his family's plantation, Berkeley, in Charles City County, Virginia.
		In 1799 Harrison was elected territorial delegate to Congress.
		As delegate, Harrison endeared himself to the frontier voters by persuading Congress to divide the public lands of the territory into small homestead lots, to be sold to settlers under four-year credit terms.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761570955__1/William_Henry_Harrison.html (2167 words)

	William Henry Harrison - LoveToKnow 1911
		WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON (1773-1841), ninth president of the United States, was born at Berkeley, Charles City county, Virginia, on the 9th of February 1773, the third son of Benjamin Harrison (c.
		William Henry Harrison received a classical education at HampdenSidney College, where he was a student in 1787-1790, and began a medical course in Philadelphia, but the death of his father caused him to discontinue his studies, and in November 1791 he entered the army as ensign in the Tenth Regiment at Fort Washington, Cincinnati.
		In 1799 he was chosen by the Jeffersonian party of this territory as the delegate of the territory in Congress.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /William_Henry_Harrison (1400 words)

	Some Descendants of Alexander Henry - pafg03.asp - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		William married (1) Mary McNair in VA. Mary was born in 1736 in SCO.
		William Henry was born on 30 Sep 1754.
		Probably Henry did not have these facts in his mind when he spoke, but they must have colored his thought and increased the earnestness and intensity with which he defended what he was pleased to term the "majesty of the people." His strong language touched the hearts of the hearers in more ways than one.
	www.juch.org /henry/pafg03.asp (5756 words)

	William Alexander Henry - Canadian Confederation
		William Alexander Henry, Attorney General for Nova Scotia in 1864, was a delegate to all three Confederation conferences.
		William Alexander Henry was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
		Henry was first elected in 1840 as a Liberal member for Antigonish, and represented the region almost continuously from that time until 1867.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /confederation/023001-2345-e.html (572 words)

	WilliamHarrison
		William was married to Anna Tuthill Symmes on November 25, 1795, in North Bend Ohio.
		William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia because he went out in the rain riding horseback, he refused to go in a coach or wear a hat or coat.
		William was born on February 9, 1773 in the Berkely Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia.
	www.williamhenryharrison.homestead.com /WilliamHarrison.html (856 words)

	William Henry Harrison - MSN Encarta
		He was the son of Elizabeth Basset Harrison and Benjamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and governor of Virginia.
		As territorial secretary, Harrison had charge of the territorial records and the governor's transactions, which he presented to the Congress of the United States.
		When in the same year the Indiana Territory was carved out of the Northwest Territory by another piece of legislation pressed by Harrison, he was appointed governor of the Indiana Territory.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570955/Harrison_William_Henry.html (575 words)

	Judge William H. WHITE
		William Henry White established many firsts: the first justice appointed by a governor to fill a vacancy; the first elected to a short term; the first appointed to a temporary vacancy; the first to return to the high bench after having previously served; and the first Democrat.
		William Henry Fulton White was a civil war hero known as "War horse Bill" and the son of
		William Henry Fulton White., born May 28, 1842, served as associate justice of the supreme court of the State of Washington, which position he was appointed June 1, 1900.
	www.irishgenealogy.com /biography/us/wa/white-william-henry.htm (4100 words)

	Utah History Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WILLIAM H. William Henry King was born in Fillmore, Utah, on 3 June 1863, the son of William and Josephine Henry King.
		He was also an active Democrat on the national level, serving as a delegate to the party's national conventions on a number of occasions from 1908 to 1932.
		In 1936 King was defeated in his bid to be elected a delegate to the national Democratic party convention, and was targeted for defeat for the Senate when party liberals passed a direct primary law in the 1937 legislature.
	www.media.utah.edu /UHE/k/KING,WILLIAM.html (548 words)

	Major William McHenry
		William McHenry, of Scot-Irish descent, was born October 3, 1771.
		William was appointed to view and mark a road between Carmi and the US Salines; in 1825 he was commissioned to lay out the Carmi-Vandalia road and in 31 the road between Carmi and Albion.
		William was transferred to the 3rd Regiment, the Rifle Battalion and on the 18th of June 1812 war was declared between this country and Great Briton.
	www.iltrails.org /mchenry/majormchenry.htm (1859 words)

	William Henry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Henry, (1729-1786), U.S. gunsmith and Pennsylvania delegate to Continental Congress
		William III of England is sometimes known as William Henry, Prince of Orange, as a translation of his Dutch title "Willem Hendrik, Prins van Oranje"
		William IV of England was known as William Henry, Duke of Clarence before he became king
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Henry (176 words)

	Patrick Henry
		He was the son of John Henry, a well-educated Scotsman, among whose relatives was the historian William Robertson, and who served in Virginia as county surveyor, colonel and judge of a county court.
		In 1774 and 1775 he was a delegate to the Continental Congress and served on three of its most important committees: that on colonial trade and manufactures, that for drawing up an address to the king, and that for stating the rights of the colonies.
		Henry was twice married, first to Sarah Skelton, and second to Dorothea Spotswood Dandridge, a grand-daughter of Governor Alexander Spotswood.
	www.nndb.com /people/916/000027835 (948 words)

	obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for William Henry Harrison
		The ninth President of the United States, William Henry Harrison was the first Chief Executive to die in office, passing away in the White House exactly a month after his inauguration.
		Harrison's wife Anna had been ill and mourning the recent death of their son, William, and had not undertaken the journey to the capitol for the inaugural ceremonies, but was able to read her husband's address the same day.
		After a funeral and burial in Washington, Harrison's remains were exhumed and interred in the William Henry Harrison Memorial Park of North Bend, Ohio.
	obits.com /harrisonwilliamh.html (1142 words)

	William Henry Harrison
		Her father refused his consent to the match, but the young couple were married in his house during his temporary absence, and Symmes soon became reconciled to his son-in-law.
		In 1819 General Harrison was chosen to the senate of Ohio, and in 1822 was a candidate for congress, but was defeated on account of his vote against the admission of Missouri to the Union with the restriction that slavery was to be prohibited there.
		In 1824 he was a presidential elector, voting for Henry Clay, and in the same year he was sent to the United States senate, where he succeeded Andrew Jackson as chairman of the committee on military affairs, introduced a bill to prevent desertions, and exerted himself to obtain pensions for old soldiers.
	www.williamhenryharrison.org (3277 words)

	Indiana Governor William Henry Harrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON was born in Virginia, the son of Benjamin Harrison, who was himself a governor of Virginia and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
		Harrison was appointed secretary of the Northwest Territory on June 26,1798, and in 1799 was elected a territorial delegate to Congress, where he served until May, 1800, when he was appointed governor of the Indiana Territory, an area that initially included all of the original Northwest Territory except Ohio.
		Steele painted a portrait of Harrison as one of the epochal governors chosen for the centennial celebration in 1916.
	www.statelib.lib.in.us /www/ihb/govportraits/harrison.html (443 words)

	William Henry Harrison
		William Henry Harrison was born on his father’s estate, Berkeley, a tobacco plantation on the James River in Virginia.
		In the period from 1800 to 1812, Harrison was the governor of the Indiana Territory where his prime function was to conclude treaties for the purchase of lands from Native Americans.
		William Henry Harrison at 68 years of age was the oldest man to be elected president (until Ronald Reagan in 1980); he also was the first president to die in office and had the shortest term.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h290.html (609 words)

	William Henry Harrison
		The ninth President of the United States, William Henry Harrison was born at Berkeley, Charles City county, Virginia, on the 9th of February 1773, the third son of Benjamin Harrison (c.
		William Henry Harrison received a classical education at Hampden-Sidney College, where he was a student in 1787-90, and began a medical course in Philadelphia, but the death of his father caused him to discontinue his studies, and in November 1791 he entered the army as ensign in the Tenth Regiment at Fort Washington, Cincinnati.
		Harrison was a member of the Ohio senate in 1819-21, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the National House of Representatives in 1822, when his Missouri vote helped to cause his defeat; he was a presidential elector in 1824, supporting Henry Clay, and from 1825 to 1828 was a member of the United States Senate.
	www.nndb.com /people/886/000031793 (1269 words)

	William Henry (delegate) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Henry (May 19, 1729– December 15, 1786) was an American gunsmith from Chester County, Pennsylvania.
		He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1784 and 1785.
		In 1763 he made his own steam engine, and then failed in an attempt to build a steamboat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Henry_(delegate) (112 words)

	William Henry Harrison
		William Henry Harrison was the 9th president of the United States, one of the presidents elected based on military service, in his case the successful conduct of Indian wars.
		William would have first remembered Washington as the dashing commander of the Continental Army visiting his father at their plantation.
		When William's father was governor, Washington wrote to him stressing the importance of opening a road to Ohio, which at that time was the West, to bind it to the East.
	histclo.com /pres/ind19/harrisonw.html (2258 words)

	Indiana Historical Society
		William Henry Harrison became famous as the victor in the Battle of Tippecanoe (Nov. 7, 1811), while also serving as Indiana's first territorial governor for 12 years, and he was elected president of the United States in 1840.
		Harrison was elected (over Arthur St. Clair, Jr.) as the Northwest Territory's first delegate to Congress in 1799, and the following year came the first of four appointments as governor of the Indiana Territory, created in 1800 by legislation Harrison had sponsored.
		For more information on Harrison, consult the William Henry Harrison Papers in the IHS Library or the microfilm edition of The Papers of William Henry Harrison, 1800-1815.
	www.indianahistory.org /pop_hist/people/williamharrison.html (333 words)

	WILLIAM H
		THOMPSON, William Henry, judge and U. senator, was born at Perrysville, Ohio, December 14, 1853, son of Eli and Eliza (Kirby) Thompson.
		A stalwart Democrat in politics, he was chairman of the Nebraska delegation to the Democratic National Convention in 1892 and was a delegate-at-large to the Democratic National Convention in 1896 when he helped to nominate William Jennings Bryan (q.v.) of whom he was an intimate friend.
		He was also a delegate at large to the national conventions of 1900, 1904, 1908, and 1920 and a Democratic nominee for governor of Nebraska in 1902.
	home.att.net /~musserreunion/william_h_thompson.htm (667 words)

	Harrison, William Henry - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY [Harrison, William Henry] 1773-1841, 9th President of the United States (Mar. 4-Apr. 4, 1841), b.
		In the War of 1812, after the failure of Gen. William Hull, Harrison was made commander in the Northwest.
		Taking Detroit (Sept. 29, 1813), he advanced to defeat Gen. Henry Procter and establish American hegemony in the West at the battle of the Thames River on Oct. 5, 1813 (see Thames, battle of the), in which Tecumseh was killed.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-harrisonw.html (667 words)

	Ohio Historical Society \| Ohio Governors
		Ohio's nineteenth governor was William Bebb of Butler County, the third native Ohioan to be elected to the office.
		William, the first of their three children, who was born on December 8, 1802, is said to have been the first white child born in Butler County west of the Great Miami River.
		Four years later he was a delegate to the Baltimore convention which nominated Henry Clay for the presidency.
	www.ohiohistory.org /onlinedoc/ohgovernment/governors/bebb.html (988 words)

	Captain William Henry Dobbs (1716-1781) - Genealogy - A Wikia wiki
		William Henry DOBBS is the son of William DOBBS and Catharina STOT of New York, and grandson of Walter DOBBS and Mary MERRITT of Barren Island, Jamaica Bay, New York.
		The career of William Dobbs in the Revolutionary War, both as a "regular" attached to the Department Quartermaster General in the Fishkill cantonment, and on special assignments for George Washington, are documented in numerous primary records.
		It is known that Dorcas's William was "Captain William Dobbs" (as identified in the obit of Dorcas, Republican Watch Tower, 12 December 1804, and was clearly a mariner familiar with the West Indies trade, since their daughter Mary was born in Curaçao.
	genealogy.wikia.com /wiki/Captain_William_Henry_Dobbs_(1716-1781) (5733 words)

	William Henry Seward
		He was defeated by William L. Marcy, and returned to the practice of law in the beginning of 1835.
		He was a delegate to the National Republican convention of 1878, and a presidential elector in 1880.
		-Another nephew of William Henry, George Frederick, diplomatist, born in Florida, New York, 8 November, 1840, was prepared for college at Seward institute in his native village, and entered Union with the class of 1860, but was not graduated.
	www.famousamericans.net /williamhenryseward (3148 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Henry
		Henry, A. — of Oakland, Alameda County, Calif.
		Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1780; state court judge in Virginia, 1782-88.
		Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y. Henry, Kumari — of Madrid, Boone County, Iowa.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/henry.html (1132 words)

	:: www.PresidentialRhetoric.com ::
		After the failure in his second year of a huge program of health care reform, Clinton shifted emphasis, declaring "the era of big government is over." He sought legislation to upgrade education, to protect jobs of parents who must care for sick children, to restrict handgun sales, and to strengthen environmental rules.
		President Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe IV on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in a traffic accident.
		As a delegate to Boys Nation while in high school, he met President John Kennedy in the White House Rose Garden.
	www.presidentialrhetoric.com /presidents/clinton.html (573 words)

	Go home with William Henry Harrison
		William Henry Harrison's resume is written in stone.
		It was in the brick plantation house at Berkeley, which dates to 1726, that William Henry Harrison was born.
		His boyhood bedroom was the one in which William Henry Harrison was born.
	www.cincinnati.com /travel/stories/112402_travlede.html (1981 words)

	Drayton Hall: William Henry Drayton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Henry Drayton was born at Drayton Hall in 1742.
		This is the original die-cast mold for the South Carolina State Seal, which was designed by William Henry Drayton and Arthur Middleton.
		William Henry Drayton was one of the first outspoken patriots in South Carolina.
	www.draytonhall.org /online_exhibits/revwar_william_bio.htm (324 words)

	William Henry Hite
		Hite was born in Wheatland, Missouri, March 20, 1869, a member of an early Missouri pioneer family, probably from Virginia, and a son of William Henry and Martha (Van Noy) Hite.
		William Henry Hite was an infant of two months when his father died, and he was reared in the home of his maternal grandmother, Mrs.
		Hite has been active in the ranks of his party, and has served as ward committeeman, and as delegate to county and state conventions, and was a delegate to the State Convention at Topeka, Kansas, in 1916.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1918ks/bioh/hitewh.html (904 words)

	Major William McHenry
		William McHenry was mustered out, August 14, 1832 at nearly 61 years of age due to ill health.
		When statehood was confirmed in 1818 he was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention and elected to the House of the First Session of the General Assembly.
		William McHenry did not have the pleasure of knowing that McHenry County was named for him.
	www.iltrails.org /wm_mchenry_1818constitution.htm (539 words)

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