Acting President of the United States On April 4, 1841, only one month after his inauguration, President William Henry Harrison died. He was the first U.S. president to die in office. Afterward, a constitutional crisis ensued over the Constitution's ambiguous presidential succession provision (). Shortly after Harrison's death, his Cabinet met and decided that Vice President John Tyler would assume the responsibilities of presidency under the title "Vice-President acting President". Instead of accepting the Cabinet's proposed title, however, Tyler asserted that the Constitution gave him full and unqualified powers of the office and had himself sworn in immediately as President, setting a critical precedent for an
32nd Indiana Infantry Regiment died from disease. August Bloedner, a private in the 32nd Indiana from Cincinnati, Ohio, to commemorate his comrades who died at the Battle of Rowlett's Station in December 1861. Dedicated in 1862, the 32nd Indiana Monument is generally considered to be the oldest surviving monument of the American Civil War. It was installed in the Frazier History Museum lobby, Louisville, Kentucky, in August 2010. Adolph G. Metzner, a German-born pharmacist who immigrated to the United States in 1856 and served in the 32nd Indiana from August 1861 to September 1864, made numerous sketches and drawings during his wartime service with