Whig · 1841
William Henry Harrison
Whig elected against Jacksonian power. Died a month in; the dot follows the party he ran with.
William Henry Harrison was president 1841. The party color on the chart is Whig. Early presidents are not forced into today’s party names. The placement note is: Whig elected against Jacksonian power. Died a month in; the dot follows the party he ran with.
The dot is economics +16 and authority +16. That is right of center on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Color and place are allowed to disagree. Theodore Roosevelt sits left of Grover Cleveland on economics.
What was said, and what the administration did, are filed separately. Said: A Whig presidency that would obey Congress, against Jackson’s personal rule. Done: He died a month in. There is no governing record to score, only the platform. Where those two sentences pull apart, the dot follows the governing record, not the slogan.
The nearest other presidents on these two numbers are Rutherford B. Hayes (1877–1881, +14 / +14) and Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961, +18 / +14). A small distance can join people who would have disliked each other. The chart is a compression, not a claim that they were alike.
Presidents are not placed with the Voteview roll-call score used for the current Congress. Two axes cannot carry a war, a court, a tariff, and a civil-rights record as separate facts.