美国 美国向西扩展  (1773年2月9日～1841年4月4日)

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　　威廉·亨利·哈里森（1773年2月9日－1841年4月4日），是美国的第9任总统(1841年3月4日 – 1841年4月4日)，军事家，曾在与印第安人的战斗中获得胜利。他在1841年死在任内。
　　
　　哈里森上任的那天很冷。他的上任演讲是美国历史上最长的，将近两个钟头。他没有穿大衣在外面演讲，得了急性肺炎，31天之后病逝，成为美国历史上第一个在任内逝世的总统，也是美国历史任期最短的总统。他去世之后，美国辉格党开始衰败。
　　
　　他的孙子，本杰明·哈里森，是美国第23任总统。

　　William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States, an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office. The oldest president elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980, and last President to be born prior to the United States Declaration of Independence, Harrison died on his 32nd day in office—the shortest tenure in United States presidential history. His death sparked a brief constitutional crisis, but that crisis ultimately resolved many questions about presidential succession left unanswered by the Constitution until passage of the 25th Amendment.
　　
　　Before election as president, Harrison served as the first territorial congressional delegate from the Northwest Territory, governor of the Indiana Territory and later as a U.S. representative and senator from Ohio. He originally gained national fame for leading U.S. forces against American Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, where he earned the nickname "Tippecanoe" (or "Old Tippecanoe"). As a general in the subsequent War of 1812, his most notable contribution was a victory at the Battle of the Thames in 1813, which brought an end to hostilities in his region.
　　
　　After the war, Harrison moved to Ohio, where he was elected to the United States Congress, and in 1824 he became a member of the Senate. There he served a truncated term before being appointed as Minister Plenipotentiary to Colombia in May 1828. In Colombia, he lectured Simon Bolívar on the finer points of democracy before returning to his farm in Ohio, where he lived in relative retirement until he was nominated for the presidency in 1836. Defeated, he retired again to his farm before being elected president in 1840.