USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mackowiak of the University of Maryland School of Medicine wrote in a 2014 edition of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases that Harrison likely died from enteric fever, not from a fatal chill contracted during the inauguration. The pair pointed to contaminated drinking water as the true cause of Harrison’s demise.

Detailed explanation-2: -He delivered a two-hour-long inaugural address (the longest ever, another record) on a remarkably cold, rainy day–all without a hat or an overcoat. Harrison seemed determined to show that a man his age was up to the rigors of the presidency, despite the weather.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Harrison delivered the longest inaugural address to date, running 8, 445 words. He wrote the entire speech himself, though it was edited by soon-to-be Secretary of State, Daniel Webster. Webster said afterwards that in the process of reducing the text, he had “killed seventeen Roman proconsuls".