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Release date of William Harrison Dollar: 02-19-09 The fifth U.S. President to hail from Virginia,
William Henry Harrison
was born in 1773. When he was a small child, his father, Benjamin
Harrison, signed the American Declaration of Independence.
Harrison served in the Ohio State Senate, as a
U.S. Representative and
Senator from Ohio, and as U.S. minister to Colombia. In 1840, the Whig
party tapped Harrison to run against incumbent President Martin Van
Buren, who had become unpopular because of a lingering economic
depression. |
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