- John Tyler was the first president to serve without actually being elected to office.
- Congressional Whigs were so furious at Tyler’s repeated vetoes that they spoke of impeachment as early as August 1842, and Virginia congressman John...
- A good account of the politics of Tyler's administration is in Robert J. Morgan, A Whig Embattled: The Presidency under John Tyler (1954).
- A committee headed by former president John Quincy Adams concluded that Tyler had misused the veto, but the impeachment resolution did not pass.
- #4 In his attempt to get elected to a 2nd term, John had a biography written titled – ”Life of John Tyler.”
- In May 1842, when the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island came to a head, John Tyler declined to use Federal troops to suppress the rioting adherents of a new...
- John Tyler died on January 18, 1862 in Richmond, Virginia.
- Biography: Before serving as the 10th President of the United States (1841–1845), Tyler had a long political career, serving as a governor, senator and ambassador.
- John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States (1841–45). He was also, briefly, the tenth vice president (1841)...
- To help, the Whigs chose John Tyler, a southerner cast in the classic mold of “genteel aristocrats” of that era.