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William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the ninth president of the United States, serving from March 4 to April 4, 1841, the shortest presidency in U.S. history.
The United States has had a two-party system for much of its history, and the two major parties have nominated vice presidential candidates in most presidential elections. [1] Since the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1789, there have been 59 unsuccessful major party candidates for Vice President of the United States.
Nineteen of the 49 vice presidents of the United States have attempted a run for the presidency after being elected vice president. [1] Six have been elected to the presidency, or almost a third of running vice-presidents, while seven have lost the presidential election, and one has dropped out. Eleven have earned the primary nomination in ...
Harrison did not have the campaign trail to himself; Vice President Johnson told Van Buren the President should "go out among the voters as I intended doing". [62] [63] Democrats tried to paint Johnson as the true hero of the Battle of the Thames, but the Vice President refused to criticize Harrison's conduct in combat. [64]
However, after the 1988 presidential election, the shine had dulled on military-veteran politicians, and through 2012, "the candidate with the better military record lost." [2] As of December 2018, George H. W. Bush was the most recent president to have served in combat (as an aircraft carrier-based bomber pilot in World War II). [3]
Later chosen as Hoover's running mate and elected vice president John Nance Garner: Democratic nomination for President of the United States: 1932, 1940: Lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt both times. In 1932, he was made Roosevelt's running mate and elected vice president. Henry A. Wallace: President of the United States: 1948: Ran on the ...
Former President Donald Trump named JD Vance as his running mate on Monday during the first day of the Republican National Convention, thrusting the junior U.S. senator into a role that ...
Served at age 13 as a militia messenger during the Revolutionary War; was captured, becoming the only president to have been held as a prisoner of war (Washington had surrendered in the French and Indian War but was immediately paroled); served in the War of 1812, attaining the rank of major general and became a national hero after his success ...