Due to his military career, William Henry Harrison became the frontrunner of the Whig Party—a new political faction assembled by opposition to Jackson. Despite his aristocratic Virginian roots, the ...

William Henry Harrison, an American military officer and politician, was the ninth president of the United States, the oldest president to be elected at the time. On his 32nd day, he became the ...

Grandson of William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison managed to ... the goal of a check on corporations that later presidents like Theodore Roosevelt could exploit more fully.