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John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841. He was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison, succeeding to the presidency following Harrison's death 31 days after assuming office.
John Tyler was the tenth president and took office after the death of William Henry Harrison. Having become the first president to assume office after a death, Tyler took charge during a time of constitutional uncertainty.
John Tyler, was the 10th president of the United States (1841–45), who took office upon the death of President William Henry Harrison. A maverick Democrat who refused allegiance to the program of party leader Andrew Jackson, he functioned as an independent while in office.
A Virginia lawyer, governor, and United States senator, John Tyler, a Democrat elected Vice-President as a Whig in 1840 became America's first accidential President upon the death of William Henry Harrison in 1841.
John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, and set the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with their own administration.
A chronology of key events in the life of John Tyler (1790-1862) from his post-presidential retirement and running of his plantation Sherwood Forest to his election as a member of the Confederate House of Representatives (1861), his death in 1862, and the death of his second wife Julia Gardiner Tyler in 1889.
2 Απρ 2014 · Like his father, John Tyler served as governor of Virginia. Representing the Whig Party, he was the first vice president to become president due the death of his predecessor (President William...
