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A biography of the Virginian who became tenth president of the United States upon the death of William Henry Harrison.
Author : Dee Lillegard
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780516013930
A biography of the Virginian who became tenth president of the United States upon the death of William Henry Harrison.
Author : Betsy Ochester
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780516228501
John Tyler, elected vice president under William Henry Harrison was the first vice president to succeed to the presidency when Harrison died only one month into his term. When Tyler vetoed bills passed by his Whig party in congress, his cabinet resigned, and he was expelled from the party, becoming the "President without a party," and was the target of violent demonstrations. After his wife died in the White House, Tyler courted and married Julia Gardiner, 30 years his junior, and she became the most admired White House hostess since Dolley Madison. His major accomplishment was the annexation of Texas, which he signed into law in the last week of his term. Book jacket.
Author : Gary May
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 2008-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429939214
The first "accidental president," whose secret maneuverings brought Texas into the Union and set secession in motion When William Henry Harrison died in April 1841, just one month after his inauguration, Vice President John Tyler assumed the presidency. It was a controversial move by this Southern gentleman, who had been placed on the fractious Whig ticket with the hero of Tippecanoe in order to sweep Andrew Jackson's Democrats, and their imperial tendencies, out of the White House. Soon Tyler was beset by the Whigs' competing factions. He vetoed the charter for a new Bank of the United States, which he deemed unconstitutional, and was expelled from his own party. In foreign policy, as well, Tyler marched to his own drummer. He engaged secret agents to help resolve a border dispute with Britain and negotiated the annexation of Texas without the Senate's approval. The resulting sectional divisions roiled the country. Gary May, a historian known for his dramatic accounts of secret government, sheds new light on Tyler's controversial presidency, which saw him set aside his dedication to the Constitution to gain his two great ambitions: Texas and a place in history.
Author : Steven Ferry
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2020-08
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN : 9781503844025
A thorough, illustrated biography discussing the childhood, career, family, and term of John Tyler, tenth president of the United States. Includes a table of contents, time line, phonetic glossary, sources for further research, an index, and detailed captions and sidebars to aid in comprehension.
Author : Christopher J. Leahy
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2020-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080717355X
Historians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation’s least effective heads of state. In President without a Party—the first full-scale biography of Tyler in more than fifty years and the first new academic study of him in eight decades—Christopher J. Leahy explores the life of the tenth chief executive of the United States. Born in the Virginia Tidewater into an elite family sympathetic to the ideals of the American Revolution, Tyler, like his father, worked as an attorney before entering politics. Leahy uses a wealth of primary source materials to chart Tyler’s early political path, from his election to the Virginia legislature in 1811, through his stints as a congressman and senator, to his vice-presidential nomination on the Whig ticket for the campaign of 1840. When William Henry Harrison died unexpectedly a mere month after assuming the presidency, Tyler became the first vice president to become president because of the death of the incumbent. Leahy traces Tyler’s ascent to the highest office in the land and unpacks the fraught dynamics between Tyler and his fellow Whigs, who ultimately banished the beleaguered president from their ranks and stymied his election bid three years later. Leahy also examines the president’s personal life, especially his relationships with his wives and children. In the end, Leahy suggests, politics fulfilled Tyler the most, often to the detriment of his family. Such was true even after his presidency, when Virginians elected him to the Confederate Congress in 1861, and northerners and Unionists branded him a “traitor president.” The most complete accounting of Tyler’s life and career, Leahy’s biography makes an original contribution to the fields of politics, family life, and slavery in the antebellum South. Moving beyond the standard, often shortsighted studies that describe Tyler as simply a defender of the Old South’s dominant ideology of states’ rights and strict construction of the Constitution, Leahy offers a nuanced portrayal of a president who favored a middle-of-the-road, bipartisan approach to the nation’s problems. This strategy did not make Tyler popular with either the Whigs or the opposition Democrats while he was in office, or with historians and biographers ever since. Moreover, his most significant achievement as president—the annexation of Texas—exacerbated sectional tensions and put the United States on the road to civil war.
Author : Edward P. Crapol
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 2012-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807882720
The first vice president to become president on the death of the incumbent, John Tyler (1790-1862) was derided by critics as "His Accidency." In this biography of the tenth president, Edward P. Crapol challenges depictions of Tyler as a die-hard advocate of states' rights, limited government, and a strict interpretation of the Constitution. Instead, he argues, Tyler manipulated the Constitution to increase the executive power of the presidency. Crapol also highlights Tyler's faith in America's national destiny and his belief that boundless territorial expansion would preserve the Union as a slaveholding republic. When Tyler sided with the Confederacy in 1861, he was branded as America's "traitor" president for having betrayed the republic he once led.
Author : Mike Venezia
Publisher : Children's Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 9780516274843
Presents the life and accomplishments of the first United States vice president to assume the presidency.
Author : Gail Collins
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0805091181
William Henry Harrison died just 31 days after taking the oath of office in 1841. Today he is a curiosity in American history, but as Collins shows in this entertaining and revelatory biography, he and his career are worth a closer look.
Author : Lyon Gardiner Tyler
Publisher :
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 1885
Category : United States
ISBN :
A biography of John Tyler, tenth President of the United States, and a "...review [of] the general history of the country through an interval of nearly a hundred years...".
Author : Oliver Perry Chitwood
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 9780945707028