William Henry Harrison

Age:  68 years
old          Wife:  Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison

Political Party:
Whig

Term(s) as President:
1841

Home State:  Born: February
9, 1773 in Charles
City County,

Virginia
– lived in Ohio

Notes:  Was criticized
for being too old.

To show he was able, he gave the longest Presidential
Inauguration

speech, which lasted more then 2 hours.  He caught a cold.

Died: April 4, 1841. He died in Washington D.C.
of pneumonia a month after taking office. He was the first president to die in
office.

Vice President Tyler was playing marbles in Tennessee when he found
out about the death of the President.
He went to Washington
to assume the office of the president