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HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY, President. Partly printed vellum document with SECRETARIAL SIGNATURE ("W. H. Harrison") as President, granting "...John Hustis, of Milwaukee County...,[land] in the District of Sands..." Washington, D.C., 25 March 1841. 1 page, oblong folio, 250 x 410mm. (10 x 16½ in.), original paper seal of the United States at lower left, accomplished in manuscript. Documents signed by Harrison in office are extremely rare because of his short term.
A document signed only ten days before Harrison's death. He fell ill after delivering his one hour and forty minute inaugural address on a cold March day without an overcoat and after being caught in a downpour. He remained bedridden for several days before finally succumbing to "bilious pleurisy" on 4 March 1841, exactly one month after assuming office. His last words are recorded as "I wish you to understand the true principles of government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more." Harrison was the first President to die in office.
A document signed only ten days before Harrison's death. He fell ill after delivering his one hour and forty minute inaugural address on a cold March day without an overcoat and after being caught in a downpour. He remained bedridden for several days before finally succumbing to "bilious pleurisy" on 4 March 1841, exactly one month after assuming office. His last words are recorded as "I wish you to understand the true principles of government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more." Harrison was the first President to die in office.