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Partly-printed DS, signed “W. H. Harrison, Clerk,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8 x 12.5, June 16, 1836. As Clerk of Courts for Hamilton County, Ohio, Harrison endorses a deed by which Zenos Bronson, "in consideration of one hundred Dollars…paid by David Bolles of Cincinnati, Hamilton County and State of Ohio," conveys a "tract or lot of land containing two hundred two and an half acres, situate lying and being in the Seventh District, Wilkinson County and State of Georgia." Signed at the conclusion in ink by Bronson, two witnesses, and a justice of the peace, and endorsed on the third page by Harrison as clerk. In fine condition, with a stain to the top.
By June 1836, when William Henry Harrison signed this document while serving as Clerk of Courts for Hamilton County, Ohio, he stood at a pivotal crossroads in his career as he readied to transition from a local office to national prominence. Although holding a relatively minor state position, Harrison was already a well-known public figure whose reputation rested on decades of service as a territorial governor, congressman, senator, and celebrated military commander at Tippecanoe and during the War of 1812.
As the Whig Party entered the 1836 presidential campaign without a unified national nominee, Harrison was increasingly promoted by Whig leaders in the West and North as a viable national standard-bearer. As such, this document dates to a period in which Harrison was effectively preparing to move beyond state-level responsibilities and onto the national political stage, a trajectory that would culminate in his emergence as the leading Whig contender in the election and, ultimately, his formal nomination for the presidency in 1840.
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