(Thursday, December 19, 1839; following the 1839 Whig National Convention) — Former Senator William Henry Harrison of Ohio accepted the Whig presidential nomination in a letter dated today.

Harrison was nominated Dec. 6, 1839, at the 1839 Whig National Convention in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, defeating U.S. Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky 148 to 90 votes on the fifth ballot.

Former Senator John Tyler of Virginia, who was nominated vice president on the first ballot on Dec. 7, 1839, winning 231 votes to 23 abstentions, had accepted his party’s nomination on Dec. 16, 1839.

Referencing Tyler and Harrison’s participation in the Battle of Tippecanoe, the Whigs would campaign on the slogan of “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.”

The Harrison-Tyler ticket would oppose President Martin Van Buren of New York (nominated for a second term by the Democrats in May 1840) in the 1840 United States presidential election.