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(Famadillo)   The longest state of the union was given by the President with the shortest term: William Henry Harrison   (famadillo.com) divider line
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OdradekRex [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 12:12:59 PM  
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aimtastic [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 12:19:18 PM  

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The reason I will always remember this bit of presidential trivia.
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 12:23:51 PM  
Did Harrison *give* a state of the union or did he *send* a report to congress?  IIRC, presidents from Jefferson to Wilson didn't give a speech to Congress, since Jefferson found it too "monarchal", like the Speech from the Throne.

I know his inaugural address is the longest on record, which is part of what contributed to him catching pneumonia and uh... you know... dying.

But, who am I to question the fact checkers at... uh... "the family magazine for tips, travel and tidbits"
 
scottydoesntknow [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 12:38:27 PM  

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The reason I will always remember this bit of presidential trivia.


LMAO came to say the same.
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 12:49:12 PM  
The guy who owns the pawn shop in Vegas?
 
whidbey
2023-02-08 12:52:50 PM  

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Did Harrison *give* a state of the union or did he *send* a report to congress?  IIRC, presidents from Jefferson to Wilson didn't give a speech to Congress, since Jefferson found it too "monarchal", like the Speech from the Throne.

I know his inaugural address is the longest on record, which is part of what contributed to him catching pneumonia and uh... you know... dying.

But, who am I to question the fact checkers at... uh... "the family magazine for tips, travel and tidbits"


I'll get the lights.
 
EnderWiggnz
2023-02-08 12:54:08 PM  

NewportBarGuy: The guy who owns the pawn shop in Vegas?


No, the one who was on cheers with Santos
 
Dr. Bison
2023-02-08 12:55:15 PM  
S'fine.

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mistahtom
2023-02-08 12:57:45 PM  
WHH didn't die, he faked his death with the help of the illuminati while they took control of the executive branch during the commotion.

Err, I mean, don't eat processed foods.
 
RasIanI
2023-02-08 12:58:39 PM  
The speech literally killed him. He caught pneumonia making that speech without a winter jacket.
 
Karma Chameleon
2023-02-08 1:01:25 PM  

mistahtom: WHH didn't die, he faked his death with the help of the illuminati while they took control of the executive branch during the commotion.

Err, I mean, don't eat processed foods.


Aaron are you returning to Green Bay next season?
 
Kalyco Jack
2023-02-08 1:01:47 PM  

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Did Harrison *give* a state of the union or did he *send* a report to congress?  IIRC, presidents from Jefferson to Wilson didn't give a speech to Congress, since Jefferson found it too "monarchal", like the Speech from the Throne.

I know his inaugural address is the longest on record, which is part of what contributed to him catching pneumonia and uh... you know... dying.

But, who am I to question the fact checkers at... uh... "the family magazine for tips, travel and tidbits"


This is not the level of hard-hitting journalism I have come to expect from Fapadillo!

Oh wait, Famadillo? Carry on...
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 1:02:04 PM  

mistahtom: WHH didn't die, he faked his death with the help of the illuminati while they took control of the executive branch during the commotion.

Err, I mean, don't eat processed foods.


Nah, you're thinking of Zachary Taylor, who died of eating cold cherries or something.
 
Mantour [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 1:04:41 PM  

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He died 31 days into his term!
 
A Room Full of Angry Raccoons
2023-02-08 1:12:24 PM  

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: presidents from Jefferson to Wilson didn't give a speech to Congress, since Jefferson found it too "monarchal", like the Speech from the Throne.


But owning people as if they were livestock was totally cool.

(I know you specifically weren't defending him or the idea)
 
EL EM
2023-02-08 1:14:52 PM  
Wasn't the speech Harrison gave the Inaugural Address?
 
whidbey
2023-02-08 1:15:42 PM  

EL EM: Wasn't the speech Harrison gave the Inaugural Address?


Long before the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
 
DoctorWhat
2023-02-08 1:19:41 PM  
So at one hour and 45 minutes speech length and 32 days in office, the speech was about 0.2% of his presidency.

Stats from https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/harrison-dies-of-pneumonia
 
moresugar
2023-02-08 1:32:40 PM  

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Did Harrison *give* a state of the union or did he *send* a report to congress?  IIRC, presidents from Jefferson to Wilson didn't give a speech to Congress, since Jefferson found it too "monarchal", like the Speech from the Throne.

I know his inaugural address is the longest on record, which is part of what contributed to him catching pneumonia and uh... you know... dying.

But, who am I to question the fact checkers at... uh... "the family magazine for tips, travel and tidbits"


Don't second-guess yourself.  You are correct.  WHH gave an epic stemwinder of an inaugural address, developed pneumonia, and died.  He didn't even have a chance of issuing a state-of-the-union message to congress - that sort of thing doesn't typically happen until a president completes his first year in office.  WHH, however, can be credited with keeping at least one promise he made in his inaugural address: he said that he would only serve one term and wouldn't run for reelection.  And he kept that promise - with extreme prejudice.
 
Conservative Evangelical Millennial Cyclist
2023-02-08 1:37:23 PM  
Little known fact:
He was known to his friends as Billy Hank Harry.
 
FriarReb98 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 1:38:03 PM  
WHH's son also has a very weird place in history: John Scott Harrison is the only person to be son AND father of a President. WHH's grandson Ben was also president, the combo breaker in the Cleveland administrations.

John Scott Harrison is also known for one other grisly little detail - his body was stolen from his grave. It was found by one of his other sons, who was helping another man look for ANOTHER stolen body, at Ohio Medical College. (The other guy somehow ended up at UMich's medical college.)
 
Slappy Longballs
2023-02-08 1:39:54 PM  

RasIanI: The speech literally killed him. He caught pneumonia making that speech without a winter jacket.


Apparently he didn't want to seem frail or weak by wearing a jacket. And he must have been up late every day of the week preparing that long speech not realizing he might as well have been writing his own obit. What a dope.
 
FriarReb98 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 1:42:55 PM  
The Harrisons are actually a pretty interesting family. Benjamin is also, as far as we know now, the first President to have his voice recorded.
 
shut_it_down
2023-02-08 1:55:29 PM  
None of these facts are right. They say that Coolidge's 1923 address was 559 words, but you can look up the transcript and it's about 6700 words. Carter's speech, which they say was 990 words, was actually 2,257 words. The numbers they use don't even make sense.
 
SoupJohnB [BareFark]
2023-02-08 2:05:45 PM  

FriarReb98: WHH's son also has a very weird place in history: John Scott Harrison is the only person to be son AND father of a President. WHH's grandson Ben was also president, the combo breaker in the Cleveland administrations.

John Scott Harrison is also known for one other grisly little detail - his body was stolen from his grave. It was found by one of his other sons, who was helping another man look for ANOTHER stolen body, at Ohio Medical College. (The other guy somehow ended up at UMich's medical college.)


That was back when reanimation theories were in vogue.
 
kokomo61
2023-02-08 2:11:34 PM  

Slappy Longballs: RasIanI: The speech literally killed him. He caught pneumonia making that speech without a winter jacket.

Apparently he didn't want to seem frail or weak by wearing a jacket. And he must have been up late every day of the week preparing that long speech not realizing he might as well have been writing his own obit. What a dope.


It could have been the cold...more likely, it helped the bugs already in his system gain ground.

McHugh and Philip A. Mackowiak did an analysis in Clinical Infectious Diseases (2014), examining Miller's notes and records showing that the White House water supply was downstream of public sewage, and they concluded that he likely died of septic shock due to "enteric fever" (typhoid or paratyphoid fever).[122][123]
 
hoyt clagwell [OhFark]
2023-02-08 5:06:30 PM  

RasIanI: The speech literally killed him. He caught pneumonia making that speech without a winter jacket.


Definitely an old wives' tale.  That's not how pneumonia works
 
COMALite J
2023-02-08 5:53:07 PM  

kokomo61: Slappy Longballs: RasIanI: The speech literally killed him. He caught pneumonia making that speech without a winter jacket.

Apparently he didn't want to seem frail or weak by wearing a jacket. And he must have been up late every day of the week preparing that long speech not realizing he might as well have been writing his own obit. What a dope.

It could have been the cold...more likely, it helped the bugs already in his system gain ground.

McHugh and Philip A. Mackowiak did an analysis in Clinical Infectious Diseases (2014), examining Miller's notes and records showing that the White House water supply was downstream of public sewage, and they concluded that he likely died of septic shock due to "enteric fever" (typhoid or paratyphoid fever).[122][123]

moresugar: Don't second-guess yourself. You are correct. WHH gave an epic stemwinder of an inaugural address, developed pneumonia, and died. He didn't even have a chance of issuing a state-of-the-union message to congress - that sort of thing doesn't typically happen until a president completes his first year in office. WHH, however, can be credited with keeping at least one promise he made in his inaugural address: he said that he would only serve one term and wouldn't run for reelection. And he kept that promise - with extreme prejudice.

hoyt clagwell: Definitely an old wives' tale. That's not how pneumonia works

From what I read, the speech, though long, was great! I mean, he killed it!
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/More like it killed him.

SoupJohnB: FriarReb98: WHH's son also has a very weird place in history: John Scott Harrison is the only person to be son AND father of a President. WHH's grandson Ben was also president, the combo breaker in the Cleveland administrations.

John Scott Harrison is also known for one other grisly little detail ― his body was stolen from his grave. It was found by one of his other sons, who was helping another man look for ANOTHER stolen body, at Ohio Medical College. (The other guy somehow ended up at UMich's medical college.)

That was back when reanimation theories were in vogue.

FriarReb98: The Harrisons are actually a pretty interesting family. Benjamin is also, as far as we know now, the first President to have his voice recorded.

Now that's awesome!
 
TheOtherGuy
2023-02-08 7:07:52 PM  
Ah, the guy whose appearance in the Alvin Maker series made me go do a Wiki dive to learn about his real-life history.  Yes, I held my nose while reading thanks to O. Scott Card's repugnant politics.  But he paints a surprisingly accurate picture of Harrison as a miserable, murdering, racist colonizer.  Dude didn't kick it soon enough or take long enough to suffer while he did it, IMO.
 
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