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
1841 rebellion in Guria leaders were released, except Prince Ambako Shalikashvili, who was banished to Siberia. According to a Russian source published in 1901, the Russian losses in the rebellion were at least 32 killed, 115 wounded, and 17 captured. The rebellion was described by the peasant writer Egnate Ninoshvili (1859–1894) in his historical novel, "The Revolt in Guria" (ჯანყი გურიაში), which was screened by the pioneering Georgian film director Alexander Tsutsunava in 1928. 1841 rebellion in Guria The 1841 rebellion in Guria (, "guriis ajanq'eba"; , "myatezh v Gurii") was a conflict in the former Georgian principality of Guria, at that time part