USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -William Henry Harrison served as the first governor of the Indiana Territory and was in office until 1812. As governor, Harrison ruled strictly.

Detailed explanation-2: -Harrison was appointed secretary of the Northwest Territory on June 26, 1798, and in 1799 was elected a territorial delegate to Congress, where he served until May, 1800, when he was appointed governor of the Indiana Territory, an area that initially included all of the original Northwest Territory except Ohio.

Detailed explanation-3: -On March 20, 1800, a bill was introduced in the House of Representatives providing for the division of the Northwest Territory into two separate governments. It passed the House on March 31 and the Senate on April 21 in an amended form.

Detailed explanation-4: -JONATHAN JENNINGS, Indiana’s first state governor, was a minister’s son, born in New Jersey and educated in the common schools of Pennsylvania.

Detailed explanation-5: -On April 19, 1816, President James Madison signed into law the act passed by Congress which would enable Indiana to become a state “on an equal footing with the original States.”