Equestrian statue of William Henry Harrison

An equestrian statue of William Henry Harrison stands in Cincinnati's Piatt Park, in the United States.

Born into a planter class family in Virginia in 1773, Harrison joined the Regular Army in 1791 and participated in the Northwest Indian War.

[3] Efforts towards erecting a monumental statue in Cincinnati in honor of Harrison began in 1886 when a commission organized a competition wherein they solicited sculptors to submit their proposals by September 10, 1887.

[4] The design by Rebisso would depict Harrison as an elderly man riding on his favorite horse, making it an equestrian statue.

[4] Despite the planned dedication year of 1888, an article published in August 1891 noted that at that time, Rebisso had only completed the model of the statue, which he expected to send to a foundry for casting within the next several months.

[9] In 2020, during nationwide George Floyd protests, protestors called for the removal of the statue, citing Harrison's history as a slaveholder.

[7][10] On June 14, 2020, Cincinnati City Council member Chris Seelbach announced that he would introduce a motion to remove the statue from the park, claiming that the monument is "pro-slavery".

[14] However, Florence Cole Quinby's 1913 book The Equestrian Monuments of the World says that "the quaint chapeau with a feather gives the work almost a comical appearance.

Detail of the statue, showing stirrup and no saddle