John Tyler
John Tyler Biography
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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. Tyler succeeded to the presidency after Harrison’s death in April 1841, only a month after the start of the new administration.
John Tyler's wife - Julia Gardiner Tyler
Quick Facts:
| Full Name | John Tyler |
| Birth Date | March 29, 1790 |
| Birth Place | Charles City County, Virginia |
| Death Date | January 18, 1862 |
| Career | Lawyer |
| Spouse(s) | March 29, 1813, to Letitia Christian (1790–1842); June 26, 1844, to Julia Gardiner (1820–1889) |
| Children | Mary (1815–1848) Robert (1816–1877) John (1819–1896) Letitia (1821–1907) Elizabeth (1823–1850) Anne Contesse (1825) Alice (1827–1854) Tazewell (1830–1874) David Gardiner (1846–1927) John Alexander (1848–1883) Julia Gardiner (1849–1871) Lachlan (1851–1902) Lyon Gardiner (1853–1935) Robert Fitzwalter (1856–1927) Pearl (1860–1947) |
| President No. | 10 |
| Presidency Begin | April 4, 1841 |
| Presidency End | March 4, 1845 |
| Vice President(s) | none |
John Tyler was born on March 29, 1790 to a slave-owning Virginia family. Tyler was born in Charles City County, Virginia, like his future running mate, William Henry Harrison. He was descended from the First Families of Virginia.[3][4]. His father, John Tyler Sr., commonly known as Judge Tyler, was a friend and college roommate of Thomas Jefferson and served in the Virginia House of Delegates alongside Benjamin Harrison V, William’s father. John Tyler, Sr. served four years as Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates before becoming a state court judge and later Governor of Virginia and a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia at Richmond. His wife, Mary Marot (Armistead), was the daughter of prominent New Kent County plantation owner and one-term delegate, Robert Booth Armistead. She died of a stroke in 1797 when her son John was seven years old.[5]
In 1811, at age 21, Tyler was elected to represent Charles City County in the House of Delegates. He served five successive one-year terms.(60)
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- **Presidential Flag Graphic source: Zscout370 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons
- (3) Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex, and Scandal, 1789–1900 by Robert P. Watson, Lynn University, 2012. Pg. 203
- (4) The World Almanac & Book of Facts. Newspaper Enterprise Association. 1949. p. 110.
- (5) Chitwood, Oliver Perry (1964) [Orig. 1939, Appleton-Century]. John Tyler, Champion of the Old South. Russell & Russell. OCLC 424864. pp. 4–7, 12
- (60) Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978), pp. 265, 269, 273, 277, 281