The Log Cabin Campaign

The log cabin campaign of 1840 having tried unsuccessfully to become the new whig party s only candidate for president in 1836 he ended up being one of three william henry harrison continued campaigning for the nomination until the next election cycle.

The log cabin campaign. The log cabin became a commonplace symbol of harrison s candidacy. They depicted harrison s opponent president martin van buren as a wealthy snob who was out of touch with the people. Democrats laughed at harrison for being too old at age 67 for the presidency and referred to him as granny hinting that he was senile lost his mental capacity.

The log cabin campaign was the 1840 u s. He did so with the slogan tippecanoe and tyler too tippecanoe referred to harrison s military defeat of a group of shawnee indians at a river in ohio called tippecanoe in 1811. This book describes its events from the opening roar of cannon for the whig standard bearers in the log cabin and hard cider campaign to the death of harrison soon after he took office.

He was portrayed in woodcut illustrations as residing in a humble log cabin on the western frontier a fact that was contradicted by his birth as something of a virginia aristocrat. The log cabin campaign of 1840. Whigs took advantage of this quip and declared that harrison was the log cabin and hard cider candidate a man of the common people from the rough and tumble west.

Political presidential campaign by harrison whig party used to gain the support of voters by using a the opposing party s disparaging remarks in his favor.