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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 26092486, member: 101855&quot;]Thank you [USER=23692]@Bill in Burl[/USER] for your interesting insights in the 1840 campaign glassware. If you would like to acquire an 1840 Harrison token, they are quite common. If I were still a dealer, I could find one for you. You might check out Steve Hayden on the Internet. You could send him an email. </p><p><br /></p><p>The first token I posted is a large, thick piece. It was issued in May 1840 as it says on the reverse. The 1841 date was for when Harrison would take office if he won the election. </p><p><br /></p><p>The “Young men’s Harrison convention” was a counter demonstration that was held in Baltimore, Maryland to disrupt the Democratic Party convention. The Democrats nominated Martin Van Buren. The young Whig Party men made a lot of noise outside the hall to disrupt the Democrats’ proceedings. During a Whig parade, one of the Democrats struck a young Whig in the head and killed him. The Whigs held a fundraiser for his widow and children which raised over $1,000 if memory serves. That was a considerable sum in those days.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Harrison presidency lasted for only a month. He delivered the longest inaugural address is history on a very cold day. He fell ill a couple of weeks later and could not recover. </p><p><br /></p><p>The nomination of John Tyler for vice president was one of several ill-fated political selections. Unfortunately political parties and presidential candidates have not always been careful in their selection of vice presidential candidates, and it has come back to hurt them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tyler was a Jeffersonian Democrat who opposed the recharter of The Bank of the United States. Tyler was associated with the Whigs mainly because he disliked Andrew Jackson. The bank was a major campaign issue for the Whigs. Tyler vetoed the bill to recharter it twice, which made him a man without a political party.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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