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Senate Years of Service: 1827-1833; 1833-1836 Party: Democratic Republican; Jacksonian; Anti-Jackson
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TYLER, John, (father of David Gardiner Tyler),
a Representative and a Senator from Virginia, a Vice President and
10th President of the United States; born in Charles City County, Va., March
29, 1790; attended private schools and graduated from the College of William
and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1807; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1809
and commenced practice in Charles City County; captain of a military company in
1813; member, State house of delegates 1811-1816; member of the council of
state in 1816; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Clopton; reelected to the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses and served from December 17, 1816, to March
3, 1821; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1820 because of
impaired health; member, State house of delegates 1823-1825; Governor of
Virginia 1825-1827; elected as a Jacksonian (later Anti-Jacksonian) to the
United States Senate in 1827; reelected in 1833 and served from March 4, 1827,
to February 29, 1836, when he resigned; served as President pro tempore of the
Senate during the Twenty-third Congress; chairman, Committee on the District of
Columbia (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Manufactures
(Twenty-third Congress); member of the State constitutional convention in 1829
and 1830; member, State house of delegates 1839; elected Vice President of the
United States on the Whig ticket with William Henry Harrison in 1840; was
inaugurated March 4, 1841, and served until the death of President Harrison on
April 4, 1841; took the oath of office as President of the United States on
April 6, 1841, and served until March 3, 1845; did not seek reelection;
delegate to and president of the peace convention held in Washington, D.C., in
1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; delegate to the
Confederate Provisional Congress in 1861; elected to the House of
Representatives of the Confederate Congress, but died in Richmond, Va., January
18, 1862, before the assembling of the Congress; interment in Hollywood
Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Monroe, Dan.
The Republican Vision of John Tyler. College Station: Texas A
& M University Press, 2003.
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