Name	Relation	Src
	President John Tyler IV	Vice President
	Thomas Jefferson	Appointed Governor
	John Quincy Adams	Appointed Amb. to Colombia

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• Other, : William grew up on his fathers plantation - Berkeley Hundred in Charles City County, Virginia. For a short time, he attended Hampden-Sydney college and studied medicine in both Richmond and Philadelphia. After his father's death, then Governor Lee of Virginia, a friend of Benjamin Harrison V, heard of young William Harrison's situation and persuaded him to join the army. Within 24 hours of meeting and discussing his future with Lee, Harrison, at the age of 18, was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S Army, 11th U.S. Regt. of Infantry. He was first sent to Cincinnati, then in the Northwest Territory where the army was engaged in the ongoing Northwest Indian War. William resigned from the Army in 1798. He soon was appointed as Secretary of the Indian Territory. At one point during his stay in Cincinnati, William worked as a clerk in the Cincinnati Court of Common Pleas. During his career, Harrison served as Territorial Delegate from the Northwest Territory, U.S. Representative from Ohio, U.S. Senator from Ohio, Ambassador to Columbia and President of the United States.
  
  In 1800, William became Governor of the Indian Territory a position which he kept for the next twelve years. In that position, he was ex-officio superintendant of Indian affairs for the area and gained the trust of the Indians. He was often upset by the disregard of Indian Rights by the government in Washington. During this period he did however negotiate treaties that gained millions of acres for the government. Exceeding all caution, he extinquished Indian title to more than a 100 million acres. In 1811, William was sent to protect western settlers against the Shawnee 'prophet' Tenskwatawa and his brother Tecumseh who had treacherously attacked the settlers. In November of 1811, Harrison however failed to crush their militancy. William also reported that the Canadians were using Tecumseh and his brother the 'prophet' to stir up the several tribes. William led a force against a Shawnee settlement near Tippecanoe Creek which brought him to the attention of Henry Clay, who was then in his first term in Congress.

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