John Tyler was the tenth president of the United States from 1841 to 1845. He was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison. Tyler ascended to the presidency after Harrison’s death in April 1841. Tyler sided with the Confederacy and won election to the Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death. He died of a stroke at the age of 71 in 1845, and was buried in Richmond, Virginia.
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John Tyler was the tenth president of the United States from 1841 to 1845. He was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison. Tyler ascended to the presidency after Harrison’s death in April 1841, only a month after the start of the new administration. Tyler was a stalwart supporter and advocate of states’ rights, and he adopted nationalistic policies as president only when they did not infringe on the powers of the states. He faced a stalemate on domestic policy, although he had several foreign-policy achievements, including the Webster–Ashburton Treaty with Britain and the Treaty of Wanghia with Qing China. Some scholars have praised Tyler’s political resolve, but historians have generally given his presidency a low ranking. He served longer than any other president in U.S. history not elected to the office. Tyler sided with the Confederacy and won election to the Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death. He died of a stroke at the age of 71 in 1845, and was buried in Richmond, Virginia. He is buried in the Greenway Plantation, a 200-acre estate with a six-room manor house his father had built on the family’s estate in Charles City County, Virginia, in 1790. Tyler’s father, John Tyler Sr., was a friend and college roommate of Thomas Jefferson and served in the Virginia House of Delegates alongside Benjamin Harrison V, father of William. The elder Tyler served four years as Speaker of the House ofDelegates before becoming a court judge at Richmond.
He subsequently served as a judge on the U. S. District Court at Richmond and was reared on a 6-acre manor estate. Tyler had two brothers and five sisters, and entered the elite branch of the elite Greenway College at 1:30 a.m. on March 29, 1790; like his future running mate, he was descended from aristocratic and politically entrenched families of English ancestry. His wife, Mary Marot, was the daughter of prominent plantation owner, Robert Booth, when her son was seven years old. He had two sons, William William and William William Tyler, who were both born in 1841. Tyler died in 1846 at the home of his son William William, who was also a judge at the Greenways Plantation. Tyler is buried at Greenway, on Greenway Road, in Richmond. Tyler also had a daughter, Mary Mary, who died on March 1, 1852. Tyler and his wife Mary Marots were married in 1854; he was buried at the Virginia National Cemetery in Richmond on March 2, 1854. Tyler has a son and a daughter-in-law, both of whom were also named John Tyler. Tyler served as governor of Virginia and a U. S. senator from 1836 to 1841; he also served as speaker of the state legislature from 1842 to 1843. He opposed Andrew Jackson during the Nullification Crisis, seeing Jackson’s actions as infringing on states’ rights. This led Tyler to ally with the Whig Party.
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