i can aging rock star, the mix jager of politics at the time. brian: when he retired from the military, what did he do then and where had he been between that time and 1840? retirement was controversial because he adjust won battle of the thames. he went to washington and there were parades. he gets to washington and resides. what happens -- he gets to washington and resigns. what happens/ secretary of war did not get along with him, so he was going to assign them to a meaningless post and harrison did not want that, so he resigned. he sent a letter to president madison and figured that madison would not accept it, but the secretary of war intercepted it and said, ok, and replaced him with andrew jackson. assigned to go do some peace talks with the indians, which he did, but he was out of office. he was able at that time to use his fame to get into congress. he was in the house. and he was in the ohio senate. as the years went by, his famous faded and he lost a couple of elections. he finally convinced the state legislature to appoint him to the