William Harrison was born on February 9, 1773 into the prominent Harrison political family on the Berkeley Plantation in Charles City County, Virginia; The youngest of Benjamin Harrison V and Elizabeth Bassett's seven children. He was the last president to be born a British subject before American Independence. His father was a Virginia planter and a delegate to the Continental Congress (1774–1777) who signed the Declaration of Independence and was governor of Virginia between 1781 and 1784. Harrison's brother, Carter Bassett Harrison, became a representative of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, and Harrison's father-in-law was Representative John Cleves Symmes. Harrison's stepmother-in-law was the daughter of New Jersey Governor William Livingston.
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