JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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He was the first Republican president.
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He was elected with the greatest Electoral College margin in history.
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He died a month after taking office, serving the shortest term of any U.S. president.
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He was the first president to win the Electoral College but lose the popular vote.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Harrison died just 31 days after his inauguration in 1841, and had the shortest presidency in United States history. He was also the first United States president to die in office, and a brief constitutional crisis resulted as presidential succession was not then fully defined in the United States Constitution.
Detailed explanation-2: -William Henry Harrison, an American military officer and politician, was the ninth President of the United States (1841), the oldest President to be elected at the time. On his 32nd day, he became the first to die in office, serving the shortest tenure in U.S. Presidential history.
Detailed explanation-3: -William Henry Harrison was a significant president because he was the first president of the newly created Whig party and served one of the shortest terms in American history.
Detailed explanation-4: -As a successful military commander in the Indian Territory and during the War of 1812, Harrison cleared the way for U.S. westward expansion by defeating Native American coalitions and British forces. His campaigns forever changed the U.S. government relations with Native Americans in the Northwest Territories.
Detailed explanation-5: -The shortest presidency was that of Pedro Lascuráin, who governed Mexico on 19 February 1913 for less than one hour.