• In the spring of 1844, Tyler ordered Secretary of State John C. Calhoun to begin negotiations with Texas president Sam Houston for the annexation of Texas.
  • The cabinet of John Tyler resigned in 1841 at the instigation of Henry Clay. John Quincy Adams was among the critics to refer to John Tyler as “His Accidency”.
  • A good account of the politics of Tyler's administration is in Robert J. Morgan, A Whig Embattled: The Presidency under John Tyler (1954).
  • He even refused to open letters that were sent to “Acting President Tyler.” Eventually, Americans accepted John Tyler was the nation’s 10th president.
  • Please stop calling me “His Accidency” it hurts my feelings. #cultureandsociety. John Tyler. @jjohntyler. · Jan 5, 2019. well that didn’t last long. :( John Tyler.
  • Elizabeth Armistead Tyler. 1780. 1824 (43-44 years). m.1798 John Pryor (1774-1846). 8 children. 3. Martha Jefferson Tyler. 1782. 1855 (72-73 years).
  • John Tyler was the sixth of eight children of John and Mary Marot Armistead Tyler. John Tyler’s father was a prosperous tobacco grower and slaver owner.
  • His father, John Tyler, had been Speaker of the House of Delegates during the 1780s and a member of the Convention of 1788.
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  • John Tyler signaled the last gasp of the Old Virginia aristocracy in the White House. Born a few years after the American Revolution in 1790 to an old family from...