Soldiers and Sailors Monument: William Henry Harrison - Indianapolis, Indiana - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

Full-length bronze statue of General William Henry Harrison. He is wearing early nineteenth military uniform including a cockade hat. He is holding a sword in his left hand. The statue is standing on a limestone base with a plaque inscribed:

William H. Harrison
Conqueror Of The
Indian Confederacy
War 1812-1815

From Wikipedia:

"William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States (1841), an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office. He was 68 years, 23 days old when elected, the oldest president elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980]. Harrison died on his 32nd day in office of complications from pneumonia, serving the shortest tenure in United States presidential history. His death sparked a brief constitutional crisis, but that crisis ultimately resolved many questions about presidential succession left unanswered by the Constitution until passage of the 25th Amendment.

Before election as president, Harrison served as the first territorial congressional delegate from the Northwest Territory, governor of the Indiana Territory and later as a U.S. representative and senator from Ohio. He originally gained national fame for leading U.S. forces against American Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, where he earned the nickname "Tippecanoe" (or "Old Tippecanoe"). As a general in the subsequent War of 1812, his most notable contribution was a victory at the Battle of the Thames in 1813, which brought an end to hostilities in his region.

After the war, Harrison moved to Ohio, where he was elected to the United States Congress, and in 1824 he became a member of the Senate. There he served a truncated term before being appointed as Minister Plenipotentiary to Colombia in May 1828. In Colombia, he spoke with Simon Bolívar about the finer points of democracy before returning to his farm in Ohio, where he lived in relative retirement until he was nominated for the presidency in 1836. Defeated, he retired again to his farm before being elected president in 1840."

TITLE: Soldiers and Sailors Monument: William Henry Harrison ARTIST(S): John H Mahoney DATE: Installed 1895. Dedicated May 15, 1902. MEDIUM: Sculpture: bronze; Base: limestone. CONTROL NUMBER: IAS 75004712 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Indiana War Memorial Monument Circle Indianapolis, Indiana DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: None noted.

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