WI: William Henry Harrison Lives

It's something I've thought about for the 1830's TL I'm researching but I haven't done much research outside the UK yet so I don't know this bit of history well enough to comment. Am very interested in what other people think though.

Man was a bastard though, he sold off the kids he had with one of his slaves before moving to the White House to avoid scandal.
 
If he survives his Presidency the biggest change would be that the presidential succession would not be established. Since that pretty much resulted from Tyler taking up the presidency afterwards.

Internal policy might not change much from Tyler, but WHH might hold off from annexing Texas for a last hurrah as Tyler did. This might change the campaigns and outcome of the 44 election. And maybe delaying the Mexican American War a bit.

It is likely that in 44 the Whigs will still nominate Clay, but Polk being the dark-horse candidate at the time might not be around then.
 
Harrison more or less ran on the American System. If president, he likely just signs whatever Clay gets through Congress.
 
If he survives his Presidency the biggest change would be that the presidential succession would not be established. Since that pretty much resulted from Tyler taking up the presidency afterwards.
I wouldn't be too surprised if a future Vice-President "discharg[ing] the Powers and Duties" of the Presidency, being a politician who enjoys power, would do the same thing with the same result.

Internal policy might not change much from Tyler, but WHH might hold off from annexing Texas for a last hurrah as Tyler did. This might change the campaigns and outcome of the 44 election. And maybe delaying the Mexican American War a bit.
I'm not sure about Harrison's attitude on manifest destiny, but he wasn't opposed to the expansion of slavery - in fact, he'd advocated permitting slavery in Indiana Territory to encourage settlement! (There's a strange PoD...) So, I don't think he'd strongly oppose annexing Texas. One way or another, though, if it's still a live issue by the '44 election, that wouldn't be changed much. iOTL, Tyler didn't annex it until he was a lame duck.
 
Well, what he would do is probably found in his Inaugural address where he pretty much said what he would do.

Whig this and that. Though, it appears that Clay was so eager to get his own due that it lead to him and Harrison having a fall out.
 
Well, what he would do is probably found in his Inaugural address where he pretty much said what he would do.

Whig this and that. Though, it appears that Clay was so eager to get his own due that it lead to him and Harrison having a fall out.

It's hard to see Clay getting along with any President who was, well, not Clay. That being said, Henry Clay was the consumate politician, and would see it as his best interest to push through the Whig Program (which was, at heart, Clay's program). Harrison, I believe, had vowed to serve only one term, so, with a successful Whig legislative package, Clay is likely Harrison's successor.

We may well be seeing Harrison leading directly to a Clay Presidency, which would be facinating in and of itself.
 
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