Past Presidential Races brought us “booze” and “boozers”
In 1840 William Henry Harrison (hero of Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 where he defeated the Shawnee Indians on the Ohio River) with John Tyler as his Vice President ran as Whig Party candidates with the slogan TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO. Democrats savaged both especially charging Harrison was a tottering old man too old to be President, he was 67, and a drunk. Indeed Harrison’s supporters often cheered him on with toast of Old Cabin whiskey from log cabin shaped bottles sold by E. C. Booz that became a symbol of the Harrison-Tyler campaign. In fact that campaign popularized the word “booze” for hard liquor and “boozers” for those who drank adding both words to the lexicon.
At any rate Harrison was elected giving a record 1 hour and 45 minute Inauguration speech coatless to show his vigor but catching a cold that developed into pneumonia killed him a month later.
President Harrison served at 9th President of the United States for 30-days from March 4th - April 4th, 1841.
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