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 John Tyler
Tyler, in the Virginia legislature, introduced resolutions of censure, in which the senators were taken to task, while the Virginia doctrines, as to the unconstitutional character of the bank and the binding force of instructions, were formally asserted.
Tyler was appointed a commissioner to President Buchanan, while Judge John Robertson was appointed commissioner to the state of South Carolina, the object being to persuade both parties to abstain from any acts of hostility until the proposed peace convention should have had an opportunity to meet and discuss the situation.
Tyler made a speech on the steps of the Exchange hotel in Richmond, and declared his belief that no arrangement could be made, and that nothing was left for Virginia but to act promptly in the exercise of her powers as a sovereign state.
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 American President   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Julia Gardiner Tyler was not only used to attention, she reveled in it.
Julia's sources kept her informed of important legislation regarding the issue of Texas, and when the matter came up for debate in the House, she was a visible presence in the visitors' gallery.
Julia Tyler's support of Texas statehood was so well known that in the minds of many contemporaries she was just as associated with the issue as the President.
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 Julia Gardiner Tyler
Daughter of Juliana McLachlan and David Gardiner, descendant of prominent and wealthy New York families, Julia was trained from earliest childhood for a life in society; she made her debut at 15.
Late in 1842 the Gardiners went to Washington for the winter social season, and Julia became the undisputed darling of the capital.
Julia, her sister Margaret, and her father joined a Presidential excursion on the new steam frigate Princeton; and David Gardiner lost his life in the explosion of a huge naval gun.
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 Lyon G. Tyler -- Smith essay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
By the mid nineteenth century, the Gardiner family was wealthy, and Lyon's mother Julia Gardiner was a nationally known beauty with a persona similar to that of Jackie Kennedy.
Tyler where she could find letters in which Julia Gardiner made extensive comment on the original architectural details, decoration, and furnishings.
In Dr. Tyler's interpretation, the significant factor was John Tyler's consistent support for high-minded principles and not the gridlock that developed because of his principles.
www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/tyler_lyon2.html   (5563 words)

  
 John Tyler
John Tyler the younger entered the grammar school of the College of William and Mary, at Williamsburg, in 1802, and graduated in 1807.
Tyler's career as senator was marked by a degree of independence which at times made his party position uncertain, notwithstanding the fact that his political ideas continued to be those of a strict constructionist.
In the election of 1836 Tyler was supported as a candidate for the vice-presidency by the friends of Hugh L. White of Tennessee, the Democratic candidate opposed to Martin Van Buren, and received 47 votes, none of them from Virginia.
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 History's Women
Gardiner decided to remove their daughter from further publicity and took Julia and her sister on a European tour, hoping that after a year abroad the unpleasant notoriety would be forgotten.
Tyler had been a widower for just a few months when he reportedly became enamored of Julia and according to her later account actually proposed to her at a costume ball where she was dressed as a Greek maiden.
Gardiner asking to marry Julia, and she gave her consent provided the president provided Julia with the “necessary comforts and elegancies of life” to which she was accustomed.
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 Tyler
The son of Virginia governor John Tyler, Tyler attended the College of William and Mary and graduated in 1807.
Tyler was elected as a representative to Congress in 1817 and then went on to serve as Virginia’s Governor and then represented the state as a Senator.
Tyler retired in 1845 and went on to have seven children with Julia before his death in Richmond, Virginia on January 18, 1862.
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 Julia Gardiner Tyler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Julia Gardiner Tyler (July 23, 1820 – July 10, 1889), second wife of John Tyler, was First Lady of the United States from June 26, 1844 to March 4, 1845.
Daughter of David Gardiner, New York State Senator, descendant of prominent and wealthy New York families, Julia was trained from earliest childhood for a life in society; she made her debut at 15.
Late in 1842 the Gardiners went to Washington, D.C. for the winter social season, and Julia became the undisputed darling of the capital.
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 Tippecanoe and Tyler, too !! - HiddenMysteries Conspiracy Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Tyler, Texas was named for this statesman that stood up for truth against the tyranny of the United States Federal Government.
Tyler's mother died when he was 7, and the boy was raised by his father, Judge John Tyler, who later served as governor of Virginia.
Tyler felt that each state should run its own affairs and that the federal government should stay within the powers assigned to it in the Constitution.
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 John Tyler - American Presidents
Tyler was born March 29, 1790, the son of John Tyler and Mary Armistead.
Tyler, who believed that the Constitution must be strictly construed, was a strict state-rights Democrat and grew increasingly alienated from the Jacksonian Democrats.
Tyler refused to use Federal troops to quell the rioting adherents of a new state constitution.
www.american-presidents.com /presidents/john-tyler   (906 words)

  
 First Ladies' Biographical Information
All the images of royalty that she saw gave the young Julia Gardiner a severe case of "Queen fever" that would be reflected during her time in the White House.
Julia also had a "court" of ladies in waiting made up of her sister Margaret, two cousins and one of Tyler’s younger daughters by his first marriage.
Julia eagerly supported the Confederacy and encouraged all her sons who were old enough to join the army.
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 Julia Gardiner Tyler, wife of John Tyler
Julia Gardiner was born on Long Island, New York; a debutante at fifteen, she was the "belle of the ball" and the society pages quickly dubbed her "The Rose of Long Island."
She was First Lady for the last eight months of his term and in 1845, failing re-election, the Tylers retired to Virginia where, over the next fifteen years, they added significantly to the Tyler family with seven children joining the eight Tyler had with his first wife.
Julia supported the political views of her husband and defended states rights and the right to own slaves.
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 The Presidents of the United States - John Tyler
Tyler soon joined the states' rights Southerners in Congress who banded with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and their newly formed Whig party opposing President Jackson.
Tyler was ready to compromise on the banking question, but Clay would not budge.
A year later when Tyler vetoed a tariff bill, the first impeachment resolution against a President was introduced in the House of Representatives.
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 Explore DC: Julia Tyler
Julia Gardiner Tyler was a lively, dark-haired beauty who brought joy back into the Tyler White House.
Julia first met President Tyler at a reception in 1842, but he did not take much notice of her until after the death of his first wife, Letitia.
Wearing white satin or fl lace to obey the conventions of mourning, she presided with vivacity and animation at a series of parties and receptions that revived the formality of the Van Buren administration.
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 American Experience | The Presidents | John Tyler | PBS
Tyler vetoed the Whig bills to recreate a national bank on the grounds that states should have the right to refuse such an institution.
Tyler's firm conviction that Harrison's death made him the president in every sense of the word set a precedent that provided for smooth transitions for other sitting vice presidents, from Millard Fillmore to Lyndon Johnson (letters addressed to "Acting President Tyler" were returned, unopened).
Tyler's social life provoked scandal; just months after the death of his first wife, he married Julia Gardiner, who at 22 was thirty years his junior and younger than some of his children.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/presidents/10_tyler/printable.html   (449 words)

  
 Presidential Avenue: John Tyler
John and Mary Armistead Tyler raised each of their eight children to be part of the region's elite gentry, and their boys received the best education available.
Greek Revival features, added by the President and his young bride, Julia Gardiner, are evidenced by lattice, columns, and pilasters on the porches while cornices, mantles and carved medallions grace the formal rooms of the house.
Tyler then became a leading proponent of southern secession, and in late 1861 he was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives.
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 President John Tyler (1841-1845
John Tyler was the first Vice President to assume the responsibilities of the Presidency upon the death of William Henry Harrison in 1841.
Tyler immediately began to refer to himself as the President with no actual Constitutional authority to do so, and every succeeding vice president in the same position did the same.
It was not until the Twenty-Fifth Amendment was passed in 1967 that the vice president technically BECAME the president.
www.orange.k12.oh.us /teachers/ohs/TJordan/Pages/johntyler.html   (212 words)

  
 My Family
Julia Gardiner TYLER was born on 25 Dec 1849 in Charles City County, Virginia.
Lyon Gardiner TYLER was born on 24 Aug 1852 in Charles City County, Virginia.
Tazewell TYLER was born on 6 Dec 1830.
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 John Tyler
John Tyler was mairred twice, to Letitia Christian Tyler and Julia Gardiner Tyler.
Julia Gardiner was by all accounts a beautiful young woman when she met President Tyler.
Julia was severaly affected by her husband's death in 1862 during the Civil War.
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 JULIA TYLER
Julia Gardiner was born on Gardiner's Island, New York, the land owned by her family.
President Tyler was aboard the frigate Princeton, as was Julia, her father David, and her sister Margaret, for a social cruise down the Potomac River.
Julia upon learning the news of her father's death, fainted and was comforted by President Tyler.
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 Character in Time: The US Presidents - Tyler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
As the first Vice President to assume the Presidency as a result of the death of a President, John Tyler was beset by troubles from the very beginning, yet he persevered.
Tyler's opposition is personified by John Quincy Adams, the Representative from Massachusetts, a man necessary for Congressional approval.
The audience/reader also meets Julia Gardiner, Tyler’s young wife-to-be as well as an older Dolley Madison.
www.uspresidents.com /tyler.htm   (114 words)

  
 Facts about John Tyler
Tyler was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives.
He lived in retirement in Virginia until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he emerged as chairman of a peace convention and then as delegate to the provisional Congress of the Confederacy.
Tyler was the first president to have his veto overridden by Congress on March 3, 1845
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 Julia Gardiner Tyler - Simple English Wikipedia
Julia Gardiner Tyler (July 23, 1820 - July 10, 1889) was the second wife of John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States.
In 1843, Julia, her sister, and their father joined the President Tyler on a tour on a steam naval ship.
Tyler spent her last years comfortably in Richmond, Virginia.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Julia_Gardiner_Tyler   (403 words)

  
 Internet Public Library: POTUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Tyler was the first president whose wife died while he was in office.
Tyler was the only president to hold office in the Confederacy.
Five years after leaving office, Tyler was so poor he was unable to pay a bill for $1.25 until he had sold his corn crop.
www.ipl.org /div/potus/jtyler.html   (365 words)

  
 Genealogy of John Tyler at Sherwood Forest Plantation - Home of President John Tyler
John Tyler was the most prolific of all American President: he had 15 children and two wives.
Letitia Christian Tyler, the President's first wife, died in the White House in September, 1842.
Tyler captivated Washington with the size and brilliance of her White House receptions.
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 First Lady ELIZABETH KORTRIGHT MONROE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Julia was trained from earliest childhood for a life in society.
Late in 1842, the Gardiners went to Washington for the winter social season, and Julia became the darling of the capital.
Her beauty and charm attracted the most eminent men in the city, among them President Tyler, a widower since September.
www.uintah.lib.ut.us /FL_Tyler.htm   (180 words)

  
 Kappa Delta History
It was because of the beautiful friendship of Lenora Ashmore, Mary Sommerville Sparks, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and Sara Turner that Kappa Delta began.
She was the one who first suggested the idea of forming a sorority, but was unable to put her lasting personal marks on Kappa Delta's beginnings because, after Christmas holiday, she transferred to Randolph-Macon Women's College.
Quiet and extremely intelligent, Julia Gardiner Tyler Wilson came from a distinguished and respected family; her grandfather was John Tyler, former
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