JOHN TYLER
A REGISTER OF ADDITIONS TO HIS PAPERS
IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Prepared
1979
Revised and expanded by
Nan Thompson Ernst
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. 1997
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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Additions to the papers of John Tyler (1790-1862), attorney,
planter, congressman, governor, senator from Virginia, and vice
president and president of the United States, consist of material
received through gift and purchase by the Library of Congress
from 1961 to 1997.
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Many processed and nearly all unprocessed collections are
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Linear feet of shelf space occupied: .2
Number of items: 17
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
1790 Born, Greenway, Charles City County, Va.
1807 Graduated, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
Began study of law
1809 Admitted to the Virginia bar
Began law practice in Charles City County, Va.
1811-1816 Elected to Virginia House of Delegates
1813 Married Letitia Christian (died 1842)
1815-1816 Member, Virginia executive council
1816-1821 Member, U.S. House of Representatives
1823-1825 Member, Virginia House of Delegates
1825-1827 Governor of Virginia
1827-1836 U.S. senator
1839 Member, Virginia House of Delegates
1840 Elected vice president of the United States
1841-1845 President of the United States
1841 Expelled from the Whig party following veto of the bill to
establish a national bank
1842 Impeachment resolution introduced in the House of
Representatives after veto of a tariff bill
1844 Submitted treaty to annex the Republic of Texas;
ratification failed in the Senate
Married Julia Gardiner
Failed to be nominated to succeed himself as president
1845 Signed joint resolution of the Congress admitting Texas to
the Union as a slaveholding state
1861 Elected to the House of Representatives of the Confederate
congress as member from Virginia but died before serving
1862, Jan. 18 Died, Richmond, Va.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
Material added to the John Tyler Papers since the collection was filmed
in 1961 has been organized as Series 4, Addenda, and the items are grouped by
the year in which each addition was processed. The 1979 Addition includes
twelve letters to and from Tyler and a letter fragment. Correspondents
include Hugh B. Grigsby, John Leeds Kerr, James Lyons, Cincinnatus Newton,
Judge Tucker, and John Tyler's daughter, Mary Tyler, and son, Robert Tyler.
The 1996-1997 Addition contains three items of correspondence, one of
which is a photostatic copy, and an engraved portrait. One letter, dated
1832, contains advice and news from Tyler to his daughter Mary at the family
home in Virginia. A letter of condolence from clergyman Septimus Tustin upon
the death of Tyler's wife, Letitia Christian Tyler, is dated 1842. A copy of
Tyler's letter of recommendation for the superintendency of Harper's Ferry,
dated 1841, was written during his brief tenure as vice president in the
administration of William Henry Harrison. The engraved portrait was published
in New York by Johnson, Fry & Co. in 1863 "from the original painting by
Chapel."
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CONTAINER LIST
Container No. Contents
SERIES 4, ADDENDA, 1830-1863, n.d.
Box 1 1979 Addition
Correspondence, 1830-1860, n.d.
1996-1997 Addition
Correspondence, 1832, 1841-1842
Engraved portrait, 1863
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