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 Tyler, John
| When John Tyler took over the presidency after the death of William Henry Harrison, he was immediately confronted with what crisis? | And John Tyler, Too!
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Right of Succession. The U.S. Constitution was vague concerning the official status of a vice president who succeeds a sitting president due to death, removal from, or resignation of the office. Some of the movers and shakers in Washington viewed Tyler as “acting president,” meaning he was able to perform and discharge the duties and responsibilities of the office, but didn’t occupy the presidency itself. Tyler did not concur. He interpreted that he ascended to the office, not just the responsibilities. Congress eventually backed him up by voting to formally recognize him as president, thereby setting the precedent for future vice presidents who took over the office in mid-term.
| Due to the circumstances of his ascension to the presidency, what did many people call John Tyler? | And John Tyler, Too!
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His Accidency. It was NOT a term of endearment.
| Not long after taking office, Tyler found himself embroiled in another crisis, this one with his cabinet over Tyler’s vetoes of bills designed to bring back the Bank of the United States. All but one cabinet member resigned their posts en masse to protest the vetoes. Who chose to stand by Tyler? | And John Tyler, Too!
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Daniel Webster. The Whigs, the party of Harrison and Tyler, were trying to revive the national bank that Andrew Jackson had dismantled during his presidency. Twice Congress forwarded bills for Tyler’s signature. Twice he used the veto and twice the veto was sustained by the Congress. Being good little Whigs, and being more devoted to Henry Clay than the good of the party and/or country, the entire Cabinet, save for Webster, resigned on September 11, 1841. The move was designed to make Tyler a president without party backing, effectively ending any chance of being elected to his own term.
| Tyler was married twice, first to Letitia Christian from 1813 until her death in 1842, then to Julia Gardiner, from 1844 until his death in 1862. Tyler fathered seven children who lived to maturity with each wife, making Tyler, Too the true “father of our country.” Not all of the children outlived their father. How many of Tyler’s children preceded him in death? | And John Tyler, Too!
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Three . The three that preceded him were his eldest child, Mary, who died in 1848 at the age of 33, his fourth-born, Elizabeth, who died from complications in childbirth at the age of 27 in 1850, and Alice, his fifth child, who died from colic in 1854, also at 27. All three were children from his first marriage. Tyler had his children so spread out in birth years (45 years from first to last) that these three children were gone long before his youngest child, Pearl, was born in 1860. She died in 1947, over one hundred years after her father became president.
Violin. Tyler learned to play the violin from his father, and quite well, I might add. After he retired from public life, he often performed for guests at parties. His second wife, Julia, sometimes accompanied him on the guitar.
| What was the main accomplishment of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, arguably the most important accomplishment of the Tyler administration? | And John Tyler, Too!
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It fixed the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, Canada.. This boundary had long been in dispute. Both the U.S. and Canada had laid claim to roughly 12,000 square miles along the Aroostook River. Things finally boiled over in 1839 when Canadian officials arrested Rufus McIntire, an American, who had been trying to expel Canadian citizens from the region on the orders of Maine officials. The resulting Aroostock “War,” if it can be called that, was really nothing more than a staring contest between Canadian and Maine militias. It could have, however, escalated into something much worse. Working upon a truce that had been arranged in 1839 by President Van Buren’s envoy, Winfield Scott, the treaty awarded 7,000 square miles of the disputed area to the U.S. and set the present-day border between Maine and Canada, as well as making minor adjustments which settled the U.S.-Canadian border from the East Coast to the Rockies.
Virginia. Tyler’s father, also John Tyler, served as governor of Virginia from 1809-1811.
William & Mary. Tyler enrolled in William & Mary’s prep school at the age of 12, and graduated from the university five years later. He then studied law under his father, and then in the office of Edmund Randolph, the first U.S. Attorney General. In 1809, at the young age of 19, John Tyler was admitted to the bar in Virginia.
| What state was John Tyler elected to represent in the Confederate House of Representatives? | And John Tyler, Too!
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Virginia. In February of 1861, Tyler served as chairman of a committee that hoped to prevent war. After its failure, Tyler pushed for Virginia’s secession from the Union, and served as a member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederacy. Elected to the Confederate House of Representatives in November 1861, Tyler died before he could officially take his seat as a member.
7. Mary Tyler died in 1797. Little is known about her.
| John Tyler is a great great great uncle to which future US President? | John Tyler
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Harry Truman. Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon are 8th cousins, once removed.
| How many children did Tyler have by his two marriages that lived to maturity? | John Tyler
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14. Tyler had seven kids that lived to maturity by his first wife and seven by his second. His last living child, Pearl, died in 1947.
| Because of his service in the War of 1812, Tyler was awarded a veteran's bonus of 160 acres. That land was located near what present US city? | John Tyler
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Sioux City, Iowa. Tyler's unit was assigned to the defense of Richmond during the war. They saw no action.
| The veto of what bill by Tyler caused every member of his cabinet, except one, to resign? | John Tyler
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creation of the 3rd Bank of the US. The Whigs in congress wanted to establish a 3rd Bank of the US but Tyler twice vetoed bills that would have done that. Both vetoes were sustained. In protest of the president's vetoes, the entire cabinet resigned except for Daniel Webster, who was working on a treaty with England.
| Six people were killed when a cannon exploded during a firing exhibition attended by Tyler on February 28, 1844. The cannon was named what? | John Tyler
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Peacemaker. Among the six killed in the explosion were Secretary of State Upshur, Navy Secretary Thomas Gilmer, and David Gardner, the father of his future wife.
| Who was the only man that Tyler nominated to the US supreme court? | John Tyler
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Samuel Nelson. Nelson served on the bench from 1845 to 1872. Taney was nominated by Andrew Jackson, Grier by James Polk and McKinley by Martin Van Buren.
| What was the name of the hotel that Tyler was staying at when he died in 1862? | John Tyler
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Exchange Hotel. Tyler was staying at the Exchange Hotel awaiting the start of the Confederate Congress, which he was a member of. He fainted on January 12th at the hotel and died 6 days later.
Perhaps, it is best.. Tyler's last words came in a conversation with his doctor. "Please put out the light" were the last known words of Theodore Roosevelt and "I want to go, God take me" were Eisenhower's last words. "Doctor, I am going" was the next to last sentence spoken by Tyler.
| John Tyler was buried in Hollywood Cemetary in Richmond near which former US president? | John Tyler
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James Monroe. Monroe was reburied in Richmond in July 1858, after being buried in New York City upon his death in 1831. Harrison is buried in North Bend, Ohio; Madison is buried in Montpelier, VA; and Taylor is buried in Louisville, KY.
| When did the US Congress authorize a memorial stone for the grave of John Tyler? | John Tyler
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1915. Congress authorized a memorial stone for Tyler's grave 60 years after the end of the Civil War and 63 years after Tyler's death. This was due to Tyler's support of the South at the start of the Civil War.
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