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Tyler's Address, April 9, 1841

IN just one month after entering upon his duties as President of the United States, William Henry Harrison died-the first that has died in office since the formation of the government. Consequently, it became the duty of the Vice President, John Tyler, to assume the Presidential chair-on which occasion he published the following

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