What state did William A. Harrison help found?
West Virginia
North Carolina
Ohio
Virginia
Answer
West Virginia was not a state during the lifetime of William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States. Harrison died in 1841, 20 years before West Virginia became a state in 1863 after seceding from Virginia during the American Civil War.
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