Bare-Headed Lies; Legend Says William Henry Harrison Caught a Fatal Cold on Inauguration Day. Legend's Wrong

The Washington Post | January 16, 2001 | Copyright

One of the more well-worn inauguration anecdotes is that President William Henry Harrison failed to wear a hat during his long-winded inaugural address on the bitter cold day of March 4, 1841, thereby catching the cold that killed him a month later, making him the shortest-tenured president in U.S. history.

That story, like many told about U.S. presidents, is a whopper. First, it wasn't a cold that killed Harrison; it was pneumonia. And as regular readers of The Post Health section know, you don't catch a cold -- or pneumonia -- by standing outside in the cold weather. Even without a hat.

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