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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harrison, William Henry 1773-1812 (search)
arrived with his troop of cavalry. Harrison had encamped at Sandwich, and all started in pursuit. The enemy was overtaken at the Moravian Towns, on the Thames, and defeated in battle (see Thames, battle of the). Detroit and all Michigan were recovered. All that Hull had lost was regained. Col. Lewis Cass was left at Detroit, with a strong garrison, as military governor of the territory. Soon after his victory General Harrison resigned his commission. Inaugural Address>head> On March 4, 1841, the President for a single month only delivered the following address: Called from a retirement which I had supposed was to continue for the residue of my life to fill the chief executive office of this great and free nation, I appear before you, fellow-citizens, to take the oath which the Constitution prescribes as a necessary qualification for the performance of its duties; and in obedience to a custom coeval with our government and what I believe to be your expectations, I proce
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
..November, 1840 [Tried and acquitted Oct. 12, 1841.] Log-cabin, a Whig campaign paper, edited by Horace Greeley, reaches a circulation of 80,000 during the autumn......1840 Fourteenth Presidential election......Nov. 10, 1840 Treaty of commerce between Texas and Great Britain made......Nov. 14, 1840 Second session assembles......Dec. 7, 1840 Electoral votes counted......Feb. 19, 1841 Twenty-sixth Congress adjourns......March 3, 1841 Fourteenth administration—Whig, March 4, 1841, to March 3, 1845. William Henry Harrison, Ohio, President. John Tyler, Virginia, Vice-President. Corner-stone of the Mormon temple at Nauvoo, Ill., laid......April 6, 1841 Twenty-seventh Congress, first session (extra), assembles......May 31, 1841 Samuel L. Southard, New Jersey, president pro tem. of the Senate and acting Vice-President of the United States until his death, May 22, 1842. W. P. Mangum, North Carolina, president pro tem. of the Senate and acting Vice-Pre
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Buren, Martin 1782-1862 (search)
Van Buren, Martin 1782-1862 Eighth President of the United States, from March 4, 1837, to March 4, 1841; Democrat; born in Kinderhook, N. Y., Dec. 5, 1782; was educated at the village academy; studied law with William P. Van Ness; and was admitted to the bar in 1803. Having a taste for politics, he early engaged in it, being a member of a nominating convention when he was eighteen years of age. In 1808 he was appointed surrogate of Columbia county, and was sent to the State Senate in 1812. From 1815 to 1819 he was attorney-general of the State of New York; and was again Senator in 1816, holding both offices at the same time. He began a new organization of the Democratic party in 1818, and became the leader of a body of politicians known as the Albany regency (q. v.). It held the political control of the State for nearly twenty years. Mr. Van Buren was elected to the United States Senate in 1821, and was also in the convention that revised the State constitution. In the lat