biography
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| (?1726–91)
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| biography:
| US governor, born in Charles City Co, Virginia, USA, the father of William Henry Harrison. He served in the Virginia House of Burgesses (1749–75), later leading resistance to the British. In the Continental Congress (1774–7), he presided over debates which led to the Declaration of Independence, which he signed. A member of Virginia's House of Delegates (1777–81, 1784–91), and Virginia's governor (1781–4), he championed the Union and the Bill of Rights. |
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