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Auction: 320 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and the Forest Park Collection
Lot: 1852

Harrison, William Henry. Ninth President of the United States (March-April, 1841). Died from complications resulting from pneumonia after one month in office - the shortest presidential tenure in U.S. history. Gained national fame in 1811 for leading U.S. forces against Tecumseh's Native American confederacy at the Battle of Tippecanoe; served as general in the War of 1812, as Governor of Indian Territory and U.S. representative and senator from Ohio. Manuscript Document Signed. "W.H. Harrison, Clerk" of the Court of Common Pleas. Three pages, legal folio, [Cincinnati], June 16, 1836. Harrison certifies that "John A. Wiseman, before whom the foregoing…was acknowledged, was at the time of taking the same, and now is, an acting Justice of Peace, duly elected," on the third page of a real estate transfer which Wiseman had approved. When Harrison signed this document, he was in a curious state of affairs: he had been a successful general and territorial governor, but now worked as a lowly court clerk while at the same time was one of the Whig nominees for President. Two holes at folds do not affect signature. Fine.

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