John Tyler

Our Last Insurrectionist President

by Daniel N. Gullotta

John Tyler's post-presidential second act, as a secessionist, yielded something worse than historical condemnation: irrelevance. 

The Accident that Almost Decapitated the US Government

by Stan Haynes

John Tyler intended to show off the firepower of the USS Princeton to boost his abysmal popularity and scare foreign goverments into letting him annex Texas. He nearly got more than he bargained for in one of the biggest close calls of presidential history. 

Virginia Community Colleges to Drop John Tyler's Name

“We enroll lots of people whose ancestors were enslaved, were marginalized, were clearly taken advantage of,” said Glenn DuBois, the system’s chancellor. “And what do you say to those students when they’re looking at some of these names?”

Not the First Mob Attack on the Government in D.C.

by Stan M. Haynes

An angry mob threatened John Tyler and his family in the White House and burnt him in effigy on the grounds after he vetoed the Whig Party's bill for a second Bank of the United States in 1841, leading Congress to authorize a night police patrol for the District of Columbia. 

The 10th President’s Last Surviving Grandson: A Bridge to the Nation’s Complicated Past

by Gillian Brockell

Harrison Ruffin Tyler, at age 91, is a rare example of a person whose life and family history connect the present to the era of the early republic in two generations. 

Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr., Grandson of the 10th President, Dies at 95

He and his brother, grandsons of John Tyler, were the third of three generations that remarkably spanned almost the entire history of the American experience.

‘He lies like a dog’: The first effort to impeach a president was led by his own party

Long before President Donald Trump, there was President John Tyler.

Collusion: A presidential tradition

by Stephen F. Knott

John Tyler colluded with a foreign power — to avert a looming war.

How two of President John Tyler's grandsons are still alive, 174 years later

Harrison Ruffin Tyler, 89, is one of two living grandsons of President John Tyler, who was born in 1790, one year after George Washington was sworn in as president.

These Two Presidents Also Had Bad Starts

by Ronald L. Feinman

One was almost impeached, the other was impeached. Both are regarded as failures.

Who Else Is Trump Like?

by Ronald L. Feinman

Presidents John Tyler and Andrew Johnson, two previous presidents who faced impeachment.

John Tyler’s Been Demoted in C-SPAN’s Latest Presidential Poll. Why This Is Unjust.

by Walter R. Borneman

He came in as #39. Here’s why he deserves better.