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William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 â April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States (1841), an American military officer and politician, and the last President born as a British subject.
â The Whigs, seizing on this political misstep, in 1840 presented their candidate William Henry Harrison as a simple frontier Indian fighter, living in a log cabin and drinking cider, in sharp contrast to an aristocratic champagne-sipping Van Buren. Harrison was in fact a scion of the Virginia planter aristocracy. He was born at Berkeley in 1773.