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When he arrived in Washington in February 1841, Harrison let Daniel Webster edit his Inaugural Address, ornate with classical allusions. Webster obtained some deletions, boasting in a jolly fashion that he had killed "seventeen Roman proconsuls as dead as smelts, every one of them."

Webster had reason to be pleased, for while Harrison was nationalistic in his outlook, he emphasized in his Inaugural that he would be obedient to the will of the people as expressed through Congress.

But before he had been in office a month, he caught a cold that developed into pneumonia. On April 4, 1841, he died--the first President to die in office--and with him died the Whig program.
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Ninth President
1841

Born: February 9, 1773 in Charles City County, Virginia

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.

Married to Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison