The Whigs nominated William Henry Harrison for president in 1840 because
a. Henry Clay refused the nomination.
b. Harrison was a southerner.
c. Harrison was a military hero with no political record.
d. Harrison’s best-selling “True Whig” articulated Whig belief in a way ordinary voters could understand.
e. the party could find no one else who was well known who wanted the nomination.
ANS: C
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