As campaign ads for the upcoming election continue to bombard us, Out of the Box blog features this "commercial" from the 1840 election. The broadside features a political cartoon illustrating the political views of William Henry Harrison, a president who is mostly remembered for serving only one month before becoming the first to die in office..

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2012/06/13/this-is-the-house-that-jack-built/


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