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10th president John Tyler


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John Tyler, Jr. (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States (1841-1845), and the first ever to obtain that office via succession. He was also the first and one of only two (along with Andrew Johnson) to have no party affiliation during part of his term.

A long-time Democrat-Republican, Tyler was nonetheless elected Vice President on the Whig ticket. Upon the death of President William Henry Harrison on April 4, 1841, only a month after his inauguration, the nation was briefly in a state of confusion regarding the process of succession. Ultimately the situation was settled with Tyler becoming President both in name and in fact, and Tyler took the presidential oath of office on April 6, 1841, initiating a custom that would govern future successions. It was not until 1967 that Tyler’s action of assuming full powers of the presidency was legally codified in the Twenty-fifth Amendment.

Arguably the most famous and significant achievement of Tyler’s administration was the annexation of the Republic of Texas in 1845. Tyler was the first president born after the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, and the only president to have held the office of President pro tempore of the Senate.

John Tyler was born on March 29, 1790 in Charles City County, Virginia, the same county where William Henry Harrison, the future President of the United States under whom Tyler would serve as Vice-President, was born.[1] Tyler’s father was John Tyler, Sr. and his mother was Mary Armistead Tyler.[1] Tyler was raised, along with seven siblings, to be a part of the region’s elite gentry, receiving a very good education.[1] Tyler was brought up believing that the Constitution of the United States was to be strictly interpreted, and reportedly never lost this conviction.[2] Whilst Tyler was growing up Tyler Sr., a friend of Thomas Jefferson, owned a tobacco plantation of over a thousand acres serviced by dozens of slaves, and also worked as a judge at the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond, Virginia; Tyler Sr.’s advocacy of states’ rights maintained his power.[1] When Tyler was seven years old, his mother died from a stroke, and when he was twelve he entered the preparatory branch of the College of William and Mary, enrolling into the collegiate program there three years later.[1] Tyler graduated from the college in 1807, at age seventeen.[1]

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