Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison was the wife of the ninth U.S. President, William Henry Harrison, and served as the First Lady of the United States in 1841. Although her husband won the presidency, she was too ill to travel with him to Washington and never entered the White House. Her tenure as First Lady is the shortest in American history, lasting only 31 days before her husband's death. She outlived her husband by more than two decades, as well as nine of her ten children, and remains a notable figure in early American history.