An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . •WILLIAM H. HARBISON. CIIAPTEPx XLYIL ADMINISTKATIONS OF HARRISON AND TYLER. ENERAL HARRISONwas inaugurated as President on the 4th of March,1841. His services in thewar of 1812 had given himmd his subsequent discharges of several important di])lo-is had inspired confidenceties as a statesman. His in-Iress was an able paper, andle approval of his politicalfriends. The cabinet appo


An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . •WILLIAM H. HARBISON. CIIAPTEPx XLYIL ADMINISTKATIONS OF HARRISON AND TYLER. ENERAL HARRISONwas inaugurated as President on the 4th of March,1841. His services in thewar of 1812 had given himmd his subsequent discharges of several important di])lo-is had inspired confidenceties as a statesman. His in-Iress was an able paper, andle approval of his politicalfriends. The cabinet appointments were judicious. That of , as Secretary of State, ultimately proved very ere the President could give any further indication of his courseof action—in one short month after his inauguration [April 4th,1841] he died, after a short illness, in the sixty-fifth year of hisage. Mr. Tyler, the Vice-President, was his constitutional suc-cGvSsoi, and immediately entered upon the duties of his station. (General Harrison had called an extra session of Congress, whichmet on the 27th of May. The Independent Treasury Act was r«- 631. 532 ADMINISTRATIONS OF HARRISON AND TYLER.


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