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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bill in Burl, post: 26091819, member: 23692&quot;]1840 was quite the political political campaign year.&nbsp; Harrison, nicknamed Tippecanoe from the Native Indian War of 1811 and the &quot;Battle of Tippecanoe&quot; Added to this background, he was a general in the War of 1812.&nbsp; Baltimore newspapers stated that if Harrison had a remote log cabin and a barrel of cider, he would drop out of the campaign as a Whig candidate.&nbsp; He had to defeat Henry Clay just to get the Whig nomination for the election.&nbsp; He kept the log cabin as his campaign symbol and faced a tough election:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;One of three presidential candidates at the December <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1839_Whig_National_Convention" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1839_Whig_National_Convention" rel="nofollow">1839 Whig National Convention</a>, Harrison gained the nomination over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay" rel="nofollow">Henry Clay</a> and General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfield_Scott" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfield_Scott" rel="nofollow">Winfield Scott</a> on the fifth ballot. At home, far from the convention in an era of primitive communications, Harrison played no part in the selection of Tyler as running mate. After the convention, a Democratic paper in Baltimore suggested that if offered a pension and some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider" rel="nofollow">hard cider</a> to drink in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_cabin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_cabin" rel="nofollow">log cabin</a>, Harrison would turn aside from his campaign. The Whigs adopted the cabin and cider as emblems, both of which were commonly seen (and, in the case of cider, drunk) at their rallies, and became symbolic of the party&#039;s connection with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots" rel="nofollow">grass roots</a>.&quot; Harrison won.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am very familiar with the 1840 presidential campaign.&nbsp; Among other things, I was an avid collector of flint glass cup plates and I have cup plates with both Harrison and Clay from the 1840 campaign.&nbsp; Harrison&#039;s 4-5 different cup plates have the same log cabin (2 with the cider barrel as well), as depicted on the token and print.&nbsp; I have no photography or computer skills, so I can&#039;t post a photo(s) of the cup plates, which are approx 4&quot; in diameter.&nbsp; Anyway, neat token that I wish I had to go with the rest of the 1840 presidential campaign.&nbsp; BTW, the 1841 token that you had first was probably a commemorative, as Harrison died in early 1841 and holds the record for shortest president&#039;s term, about 3 months.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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