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
United Kingdom census, 1841 simply noted as within the census county or not (or are quite frequently given as "N.K.", meaning "Not Known"). Very few census records for Ireland prior to 1901 survive due to the Irish Public Office being bombed on 30 June 1922. The 1841 Census returns for Killeshandra and Cavan survived. United Kingdom census, 1841 The United Kingdom Census of 1841 recorded the occupants of every United Kingdom household on the night of 6 June 1841. The enactment of the Population Act 1840 meant a new procedure was adopted for taking the 1841 census. It was described as the "first modern