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 in 1841. Harrison met Anna Tuthill Symmes of North Bend, Ohio in 1795 when he was 22. She was a daughter of Anna Tuthill and Judge John Cleves Symmes, who served as a colonel in the Revolutionary War and a representative to the Congress of the Confederation. Harrison asked the judge for permission to marry Anna but was refused, so the couple waited until Symmes left on business. They would ask voters what Harrison's name would be when spelled backwards: 'No Sirrah'. They also cast him as a provincial, out-of-touch old man who would rather 'sit in his log cabin drinking hard cider' than attend to the administration of the country.
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