Talk:William Henry Harrison

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Claim to that he was last British Subject President

I have corrected the previous statement that stated that President Harrison was the last born a British Subject, to "last not born an American Citizen". Barack Obama is now the undisputed last President who at Birth was a British Subject, due to his father's status as British Subject from Kenya (then a British Colony).

It is not inconceivable that there may have been other Presidents due to family connections who may have been classified as British Subjects under UK or Canadian law, sorry too lazy to check! Indeed later US presidents born to fathers who were alive pre 1783, in what was then, (in US constitutional theory the USA), but in British Law were still British Colonies. They would be classified as British Subjects, and so their children would almost certainly be British Subjects too. President Buchanan was almost certainly a British Subject at Birth due to his father appearing to have been born in Ireland. Also Andrew Johnson was very likely to be a British Subject, since his own father was born pre 1783, although it does depend where Mr Johnson senior was born which is not clear from the Wikipedia article.

What is clear is that President Harrison was the last to be born a British Subject in connection with the the 13 Colonies that formed the United States, and was also the last President who was not a US citizen at Birth.

Harrison's Portrait

Shouldn't the 1840 protrait be used on this page? It is the last image we have of him and also the most well done. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahnaf.eram (talkcontribs) 04:20, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tecumseh's Portrait

Caption should read: 1915 depiction of Tecumseh believed to be taken from an 1808 sketch

Pronouns

It has since been discovered (by some quite controversial but highly-esteemed scholars, I might add) that Harrison used him/they pronouns. Wikipedia cannot cave to bigoted, offensive, and genocidal zealot rhetoric and ignore these discoveries by deadnaming Harrison (who wished to drop the Henry from his name) and by using the wrong pronouns.

Hope this helps! 51.7.239.161 (talk) 01:53, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Care to share your sources with the class? Hitchens has been dead since 2011. Do you have any books or articles of his that state your assertion?$chnauzer 02:32, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Change Henry Harrison image

William Henry Harrison daguerreotype edit.jpg ArmenAir (talk) 04:23, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

maybe this one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_Henry_Harrison_Daguerreotype_1840.png - Wikipedia Yfyyejgjwguj (talk) 02:01, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]