Jane Irwin Harrison as official hostess during President Harrison's brief tenure in office, which lasted for 31 days in 1841. Her sister, Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin (1810–1850), married John Scott Harrison in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1831—another son of William Henry Harrison—and was mother of US President Benjamin Harrison. Jane Irwin Harrison died May 11, 1846 at age 41. Jane Irwin Harrison Jane Irwin Harrison (July 23, 1804 in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania – May 11, 1846), wife of William Henry Harrison, Jr., who died in 1838, and daughter-in-law of William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States, and mother of Ashton Irwin, Harry Irwin, and
Victory in Europe Day and take part in the celebrations. In the United States, the victory happened on President Harry Truman's 61st birthday. He dedicated the victory to the memory of his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had died of a cerebral hemorrhage less than a month earlier, on 12 April. Flags remained at half-staff for the remainder of the 30-day mourning period. Truman said of dedicating the victory to Roosevelt's memory and keeping the flags at half-staff that his only wish was "that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day". Later that day, Truman said that the victory made it his