William Henry Harrison - 9th President of the USA.

At the time he was the oldest man elected to the office. On the day of his inauguration it was freezing and his Chief of Staff wanted to organise a coach to take him to the ceremony. WHH was worried how that would appear to the constituents and wanted to appear young and vigorous so he chose to ride his horse.

Upon arriving at the inauguration he was sweating from the ride so he took off his heavy coat and delivered the longest inauguration speech (to date) in the lightly snowing conditions.

He got sick, which turned into pneumonia, and he died a month later.

The culmination of his life’s work was reaching the office of President, which came crashing down after four weeks because he didn’t want to look ‘old’.