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Fast facts | |
 William Henry Harrison | • Monday (Feb. 17) is Presidents’ Day, and though the day traditionally honors George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, the United States’ ninth president (and the first to die in office) was William Henry Harrison, a former governor of the Indiana Territory who designed the lay-out for the Hoosier city of Jeffersonville, the home of IU Southeast’s new Graduate Center (see today’s center section). Harrison was a hero of the War of 1812.
• The War of 1812 was sparked by the maritime policies of Great Britain, its war with Napoleon, and the relationship among Native Americans, their British allies in Canada and the Old Northwest. Visit the IU Lilly Library’s online exhibit of political caricatures related to the 19th-century conflict: |
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