John Tyler

POLITICAL PARTY
Democratic-Republican (thru 1825)
Democrat (1825-34)
Whig (1834-41)
Independent (1841-62)

RELIGION
Episcopalian

EDUCATION
College of William and Mary, B.A. 1807
Read law with his father, Judge John Tyler

VITALS
6 ft 0 in / 160 lbs

CAREER
1809-25 Lawyer, Richmond, Virginia
1811-16 Member, Virginia House of Delegates
1816-21 U.S. Representative, Virginia
1823-25 Member, Virginia House of Delegates
1827-36 U.S. Senator, Virginia
1836 Whig nominee for Vice President
1838-40 Member, Virginia House of Delegates
1841 U.S. Vice President (Harrison)

ADMINISTRATION
Vetoed banking bills, Distributive Preemption Act (1841); Black Tariff, Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1942); Texas annexed (1845)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT
Samuel Nelson

NEW STATE
Florida (1845)

FIRST LADIES
Letitia Christian Tyler (1841-42)
Priscilla Cooper Tyler, daughter-in-law (1842-44)
Julia Gardiner (1844-45)

POST-PRESIDENCY
1861 Delegate, Virginia Secession Convention
1861-62 Representative, Confederate Congress

“Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.”
First annual message to Congress, June 1, 1841

Portrait of John Tyler by George P. A. Healy, 1859.