John Tyler was the 10^th president from the years 1841-1845. He was the president to annex Texas. He was first vice president to become president upon the death of chief executive. This report will tell you about his life growing up and as president.

Tyler was born on March 29, 1790 to John and Mary Tyler. He was born at Greenway Estate in Charles City County, Virginia. John Tyler, his father, served as a governor, a speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, and as a judge. He was the second son of Tyler. He went to a local school and had a mind of his own. At age 11, he led a revolt against his tyrannical school master, William McMurdo. After elementry school his parents sent him to William and Mary College in 1802 where he studied hard and became very interested in political subjects. At the age of 17, he graduated. After college he studied law under his father, and then admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1809.

When he was 21 John won a election into the House of Delegates. When the war of 1812 began Tyler captain of volunteers. But he resigned and went back to the legislature after his company had seen no action.

Tyler married Letitia Christian on March 29, 1813. She was confined to an invalids chair for two years after Tyler unexpectedly became President. She died on September 10, 1842. They had five daughters and three sons.22 months later he remarried Julia Gardiner who died in 1889 who was buried next to he husband.

In 1816 he ran for a seat in the House of Representatives and won with a easy victory. After that he was given a full term. He fought for a hard interpretation of the Constitution. He voted against John C. Calhoun’s bill for internal improvements because he thought such projects increased federal control.

At the age of 31 he ran for a seat in he United State Senate, but lost. He was elected to Senate in 1827. In Senate, his convictions on strict interpretation of the Constitution soon put him in awkward position. When Virginia legislature instructed him to support Jackson, Tyler resigned from Senate and went out of Democratic Party.

After leaving the democrats, a Whig party which is a party that was a loose coalition of group with no agreed policies or political Belief chose Tyler as a Vice Presidential running mate of William Henry Harrison. He accepted thinking they had dropped their fight for a national bank and protective tariffs. He was against the measurement, but the party won over him.

His fight against his party was bitter. In Jan 10, 1843 Whigs introduced impeachment the House of Representatives. Unfortunately the charges were so farfetched that impeachment was dropped by 127 votes to 83.

During his years in office, Tyler brought a end to the Seminole war in Florida in 1842. The very same year dispute with Maine and Canada was settled on a set up by Webster who stayed with Cabinet for this reason.

The annexation of Texas provided a issue during Tyler’s last half term. Texans declared their independence from Mexico in 1836 Northern congressmen were against it because Texas would be a slave state. They acted in 1844 after electing James K. Polk who supported it. The House and Senate passed a joint resolution admitting Texas which Tyler signed March 1, 1845. Texas fully joined the Union in Dec 29, 1845

Tyler retied to Sherwood Forest, his estate were he lived quietly until the Civil War. In Feb 1861 he lead a peace mission to Washington looking for a compromise on the issue hat threaten the Union. In April, at a Virginia secession, Tyler voted in favor of Virginia leaving the Union. He won a seat in the Confederate House of Representatives, but he suffered a stroke and died Jan 18, 1862