US presidential election, 1840 (The United American Empire Of The World)

The United States presidential election of 1840 was the 14th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, October 30, to Wednesday, December 2, 1840. It saw President William H. Harrison fight for re-election during a time of great economic depression against a Whig Party unified for the first time behind a single candidate: United States Minister to the United Kingdom Martin Van Buren. However even under these circumstances, Harrison somehow managed to be re-elected.

This election was unique in that Canadian states were allowed to vote for the first time since being annexed by the U.S. in 1814.

The 67-year-old Harrison was the oldest US president elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980. Harrison died little more than a month after his inauguration. His vice president John Tyler succeeded him, though no law at the time precisely outlined the details of presidential succession, and Tyler's precedent of assuming the full office was followed by convention until ratification of the Twenty-fifth Amendment in 1967.