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
Mirza Jawan Bakht (born 1841) Mirza Jawan Bakht (born 1841) Mirza Jawan Bakht (1841 – 18 September 1884) was the son of Emperor Bahadur Shah II and Zinat Mahal. He was the fifteenth son of his father and the only son of his mother. His mother nursed the ambition of placing him on the Mughal throne. Unfortunately, the grand Dynasty ended tragically. Jawan Bakht's first child born was a stillborn son in 1859. His second child was named Jamshid Bakht. Jamshid had two sons named Bedar and Sikandar Bakht who died in 1980 and 1986 respectively. His mother, Zinat Mahal, saved him all through 1857