John Tyler: The Accidental President

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John Tyler was the tenth president of the United States of America. He was born on March 29, 1790 in Charles City County, Virginia. He graduated college in 1807 from College of William and Mary and his belief was Episcopalian. He married on March 29 1813 to Latina Christian and then remarried after she passed away in 1844 to Julia Gardiner. He was vice president from 1840 to 1841 when his successor died and he became president from 1841 to 1845. He was jokingly called “His Accidence” because he was the first vice President to take office of President by the death of his predecessor. The Whigs nominated Tyler for Vice President in 1840, hoping for support from southern states'-righters who could not stomach Jacksonian Democracy. The slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" implied flag-waving nationalism plus a dash of southern sectionalism (2nd source in bibliography). While he was in office the president, President Harrison, died and Tyler moved up into presidency. Tyler apparently did a terrible job as president. After Tyler vetoed a bill about creating a national bank the Whigs expelled him from their party and all of his cabinet resigned but one. A year later he vetoed a tariff and the first impeachment for a president was proposed. While Tyler was in office he made multiple bad decisions. Upon his death he wasn’t even considered an American citizen but a citizen of an enemy nation against America, because he was a citizen of the confederacy. Before his term ended Tyler had completely replaced the Whig cabinet with a group of southern conservatives. When the first couple of southern states left the U.S. Tyler had begun a compromise but it failed. Instead he created the southern confederacy and died in 1862 as a member o... ... middle of paper ... ...president of the Confederacy.(4th source in bibliography) After his term ended Tyler returned to ordinary living with his second wife in Virginia. In 1861 he held a peace conference and he spoke to try and keep the peace. After this conference failed a year later he voted for the secession of Virginia from the country and was elected for the Confederate House of Representatives, but before he could join he died at seventy one on January 18, 1862 in Richmond, the capital of the confederacy. 1. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=fKIVVCjdkj0C&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&dq=president+john+tyler+&ots=Xg3Em-fA7G&sig=-rgsS_ikz2fP29OHJW-Qf7PdpYY#v=onepage&q=president%20john%20tyler&f=false 2. http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/johntyler 3. http://millercenter.org/president/tyler/essays/biography/9 4. http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/john-tyler

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