The Last of the Founding Fathers
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To have been president of the United States is to be, at least in a historical sense, immortal. William Henry Harrison was sworn in as president on March 4, 1841, and died exactly a month later having done little in office besides succumb to pneumonia. But everyone today knows his name, if little else about him.
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