<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison" id="mwdA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Henry Harrison">William Henry Harrison</a> dies of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonia" id="mwdQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pneumonia">pneumonia</a>, becoming the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" id="mwdg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a> to die in office, and setting the record for the briefest administration. Vice President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler" id="mwdw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Tyler">John Tyler</a> succeeds Harrison as President.<sup about="#mwt84" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_4#cite_note-13" id="mweA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mweQ">[13]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"><cite about="#mwt81" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFStevens1998">Stevens, Kenneth R. (1998). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9rfHupoTcPcC" id="mwCNE" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCNI">William Henry Harrison: A Bibliography</i></a>. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. p.<span id="mwCNM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>xvi. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCNQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCNU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780313281679" id="mwCNY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780313281679"><bdi id="mwCNc">9780313281679</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt81" class="Z3988" id="mwCNg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=William+Henry+Harrison%3A+A+Bibliography&amp;rft.place=Westport%2C+Conn.&amp;rft.pages=xvi&amp;rft.pub=Greenwood+Press&amp;rft.date=1998&amp;rft.isbn=9780313281679&amp;rft.aulast=Stevens&amp;rft.aufirst=Kenneth+R.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D9rfHupoTcPcC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+4"></span></span>