Collection The Presidents
Biographies & Portraits
William Henry Harrison's Oath of Office
- Artist
- Charles Fenderich
- Date of Work
- March 4, 1841
- Medium
- Lithograph (engraving)
- Credit
- Library of Congress
William Henry Harrison's Oath of Office
President William Henry Harrison delivered the longest inaugural address on the bitterly cold day in 1841. He died one month later of pneumonia. The scene at his inauguration was captured in the 1841 engraving.
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