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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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	John Tyler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cabinet and U.S. Congress agreed with Tyler that he was President and not merely Acting President of the United States, and as the Constitution was not explicit on that aspect of succession (until the 1967 ratification of the 25th Amendment), both the House and Senate passed resolutions recognizing Tyler as President.
		Tyler retired to a plantation named "Walnut Grove" he had bought in Virginia, renaming it "Sherwood Forest" to signify that he had been "outlawed" by the Whig party, and withdrew from electoral politics, though his advice continued to be sought by states-rights Democrats.
		Tyler had long been an advocate of states' rights, believing that the question of a state's "free" or "slave" status ought to be decided at the state level, with no input from the federal government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Tyler (1531 words)

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		Tyler was elected as a Democratic Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Clopton.
		Tyler was elected to be the Governor of Virginia (1825-1827).
		Tyler postage stamp [edit]Confederate allegiances and death Tyler had long been an advocate of states' rights, believing that the question of a state's "free" or "slave" status ought to be decided at the state level, with no input from the federal government.
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	Letitia Christian Tyler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Letitia Christian Tyler (November 12, 1790 - September 10, 1842), first wife of John Tyler, was First Lady of the United States from 1841 until her death.
		Letitia Tyler had been confined to an invalid's chair for two years when her husband unexpectedly became President.
		Nobody had thought of that possibility when he took his oath of office as Vice President on March 4, 1841; indeed, he had planned to fill his undemanding duties from his home in Williamsburg, Virginia where his wife was most comfortable, her Bible, prayer book, and knitting at her side.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Letitia_Christian_Tyler (332 words)

	The Ultimate John Tyler - American History Information Guide and Reference
		Tyler's last act in office was perhaps the most significant: he signed the bill annexing Texas, which had formerly been part of Mexico, thus extending the territory of slave-holding states and unbalancing the Missouri Compromise.
		Tyler retired to a plantation named "Walnut Grove" he had bought in Virginia, renaming it "Sherwood Forest" to signify that he had been "outlawed" by the Whig party, and withdrew from electoral politics, though his advice continued to be sought by states-rights Democrats.
		Tyler had long been an advocate of states' rights, believing that the question of a state's "free" or "slave" status ought to be decided at the state level, with no input from the federal government.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/John_Tyler (1393 words)

	John Tyler help – Wiki at Help.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tyler took the presidential oath of office, initiating a custom that would govern future successions, and became the first U.S. vice president to assume the office of president upon the death of his predecessor.
		It was not until 1967, that Tyler's action of assuming full powers of the presidency was legally codified in the Twenty-fifth Amendment.
		Tyler was the first president born after the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
	www.help.com /wiki/John_Tyler (293 words)

	Project Election - Presidential Bios - Tyler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		His father was David Gardiner Tyler, and was both a representative and the senator from Virginia.
		Tyler also attended private schools, and graduated from the college of William and Mary.
		Tyler went to Washington in 1827 as a senator, supporting the parties and measures strictly by the standard.
	west.coppellisd.com /election/pres_bios/tyler_D.htm (163 words)

	obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for John Tyler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tyler's father, John, was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates throughout the American Revolution prior to his election as state governor.
		John Tyler graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1807 at the age of 17, and, tutored by his father, passed the bar and became a lawyer in 1809.
		Letitia Tyler was buried after a Washington funeral at her family's plantation in Virginia, and her daughter-in-law, the former actress Priscilla Cooper Tyler, resumed her stand-in role as First Lady.
	obits.com /tylerjohn.html (1161 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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	Tyler - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tyler, John (1790-1862), tenth president of the United States (1841-1845), and the first vice president to become president upon the death of the...
		Tyler, Anne, born in 1941, American novelist, highly regarded for her perceptive dissections of middle-class American life, especially marriage and...
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	National Obituary Archive(NOA) - Arrangeonline.com
		Tyler was born November 12, 1790 on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia.
		The Tylers believed the stroke would not interfere in the relative obscurity of the duties of a vice president, so Tyler and his family planned to have their base of operations at their Williamsburg home with Mrs.
		Tyler was buried on the grounds of the family plantation near Richmond.
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		In 1813, Tyler married Letitia Christian, the daughter of a Virginia planter.
		Tyler graduated from College of William and Mary in 1807 and was elected to the Virginia Legislature in 1811.
		In addition, Tyler and Upshur, and later Calhoun, had a territorial expansionist agenda that sought to secure Pacific Ocean ports in California, and included the speedy annexation of Texas coupled with a diplomatic strategy to secure Oregon for the North and West as a sectional trade-off for Texas.
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	American President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By 1841, Letitia Christian Tyler, victim of a paralytic stroke, was an invalid.
		When he was elected vice president in 1840, Tyler intended to fulfill his few duties from their home in Williamsburg, a concession he made to his wife’s fragile condition.
		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.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/johntyler/firstlady/email.html (1105 words)

	President John Tyler (1841-1845
		Tyler at his residence in the Indian Queen Hotel on April 6, 1841.
		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.
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	History's Women
		Born in Virginia on her family farm in November, 1790, Letitia was a good-natured compliant child, and was educated in what was traditional for girls at the time.
		His choice was Letitia Christian, who was a small, dark-eyed and very pretty young woman and as one writer put it “she always projected an aura of serenity that was restful.” (“Presidents’ Wives”, Carole Chandler Waldrup, p.
		Tyler wrote poetry for her, they exchanged and discussed books of common interest, and he did not kiss her hand till three weeks before the wedding.
	www.historyswomen.com /1stWomen/letitiatyler.htm (1289 words)

	Tippecanoe and Tyler, too !! - HiddenMysteries Conspiracy Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		In 1813, Tyler married Letitia Christian, the daughter of a Virginia planter.
	www.hiddenmysteries.org /conspiracy/reststory/tyler.html (1585 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		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.
		Letitia Christian Tyler, the President's first wife, died in the White House in September, 1842.
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	John Tyler, Jr., Captain, United States Army & Colonel, Confederate States of America
		John Tyler, son of the late President Tyler, who has been critically ill since Thursday last, was, it was thought, a little better today, and was said to be resting easily, when a Star reporter called at his home, Number 1217 B Street Southeast.
		President Tyler had a son by his second wife, who was conspicuous in the politics of Virginia, and who became president of William and Mary College, the institution from which his father had graduated.
		Tyler's daughter that the funeral should be private, but the house was nevertheless crowded with his friends, among whom were Hon.
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	First Ladies' Biographical Information
		More often than not, the Tylers experienced financial difficulties and it was the primary source of stress in the life of Letitia Tyler, and it was she who assumed responsibility for the family's investments.
		Letitia Tyler was at their home in Williamsburg, Virginia when Fletcher Webster, the son of Secretary of State Daniel Webster and chief clerk of the State Department arrived, via the boat Osceola,with the news of Harrison's death two days earlier.
		Letitia Tyler especially took to Priscilla, dismissing any notions of her being undesirable because she had worked as an actor, then considered by many in polite society to be a scandalous profession, especially for a woman.
	www.firstladies.org /biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=10 (2733 words)

	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: Letitia Tyler
		Letitia Christian met John Tyler in 1808, and after a five-year courtship, imposed by her parents, they married.
		Letitia had no formal education but had been born into a wealthy family and was quite capable of managing the Tyler plantation while John pursued his political career.
		When John was elected senator in 1826, Letitia refused to go to Washington, both because she was needed on the plantation and because she disliked the unpleasant conditions then found in the capital.
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	John Tyler Biography - Abridged Presidential Biographies : Article from CultureMonster.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Married to Letitia Christian Tyler and to Julia Gardiner Tyler - Born in Virginia in 1790, he was raised believing that the Constitution must be strictly construed.
		Dubbed "His Accidency" by his detractors, John Tyler was the first Vice President to be elevated to the office of President by the death of his predecessor.
		Tyler was ready to compromise on the banking question, but Clay would not budge.
	www.culturemonster.com /articles/article-14555-197.html (602 words)

	Julia Gardiner Tyler
		Tyler comforted Julia in her grief and won her consent to a secret engagement.
		Tyler said herself, she "reigned" as First Lady for the last eight months of her husband's term.
		The Tylers' happiness was unshaken when they retired to their home at Sherwood Forest in Virginia.
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	Letitia Christian Tyler (1790 - 1842) - Find A Grave Memorial
		She was born Letitia Christian Tyler on the Cedar Grove Plantation, about twenty miles from Richmond, Virginia to a wealthy planter and a politician.
		After her marriage to the future President John Tyler, the couple using Letitia's money purchased a nearby plantation naming it "Sherwood Forest." Letitia rarely left home and played little role in her husband's career do to the demands of her ever expanding family which untimely numbered eight.
		Upon his death, President Tyler was interred in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery with a grandiose funeral and the erection of an enormous marker.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19597&pt=Letitia%Tyler (421 words)

	Julia Gardiner Tyler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820-1889) was the second wife of John Tyler, who served as president of the United States from 1841 to 1845.
		Tyler, whose maiden name was Julia Gardiner, was born on May 4, 1820.
		Tyler took up this cause and worked to persuade congressmen and other influential people to support the annexation.
	www.worldbook.com /features/presidents/html/tyler_julia.htm (366 words)

	Presidential Avenue: First Ladies
		Letitia Christian Tyler (1790-1842) and Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820-1889)
		Her surprise marriage to President Tyler, the first president to be married while in office, was held in the Church of the Ascension in New York City.
		Tyler lived to see one of their sons, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, become president of William and Mary College--the college his father and grandfather had attended.
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	Msdea
		Letitia Christain Tyler, of English and French ancestry, was born in Cedar Grove Plantation, New Kent County, Virginia Her father was Robert Christian, a planter, and member of the Virginia House of Delegates, candidate for Federalist Party presidential electorate.
		Letitia was 17 years old when she met 18 year old John Tyler, already a lawyer and a member of the Virginia House of Delagates, at a private party near her home.
		Legacy: After the sadness of Letitia Tyler's long illness and death, and the political turmoil of the Tyler administration, Julia Gardinerâ's bursting on the Washington scene was both dramatic and colorful.
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	Tyler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Tyler (1790-1862), 10th president of the U.S. Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820-1889), wife of John Tyler
		Letitia Christian Tyler (1790-1842), wife of John Tyler
		Tyler (Freemasonry), the outer guard of a Masonic lodge
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