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CynBlogger™️Dissents (cynblogger@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 01:11:02 JST CynBlogger™️Dissents
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Now there’s a record I wouldn’t mind 47 beating!

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  Alison (britishkoalatea@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 01:11:04 JST Alison
  
  Shout-out to William Henry Harrison, with the shortest US presidential term ever at one month.
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    William Henry Harrison
    
    William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States. Harrison died just 31 days after his inauguration as president in 1841, making his presidency the shortest in U.S. history. He was also the first U.S. president to die in office, causing a brief constitutional crisis since presidential succession was not then fully defined in the United States Constitution. Harrison was the last president born as a British subject in the Thirteen Colonies and was the paternal grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States. Harrison was born into the Harrison family of Virginia at their homestead, Berkeley Plantation. He was a son of Benjamin Harrison V, a Founding Father of the United States. During his early military career, Harrison participated in the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers, an American military victory that ended the Northwest Indian War. Later, he led a military force against Tecumseh's confederacy at the Battle of Tippecanoe...
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