The uniqueness of the Presidency of John Tyler lies in the fact that he was the first Vice President who became a President by the virtue of the death of his predecessor. He was accepted as the 10th US President by the United States
The national banking act legislation by the Whig leader Henry Clay was vetoed twice by John Tyler during his Presidency. This measure caused the major rift between Tyler and the Whig party. The Secretary of the State, Daniel Webster continued his support for John Tyler and finalized the Webster-Ashburton Treaty in 1842. This Treaty helped the dispute regarding the location of the border of the Maine-New Brunswick to be settled Canada and the United States.
Annexation of Texas and the Rhode Island's Dorr Rebellion were some of the major events during John Tyler's Presidency from 4th April, 1841 to 4th March, 1845.
John Tyler had served in a number of important administrative offices before he assumed the office of the Vice-President of US. Some of the high points of his political career include:
1.Tyler was elected as a Jacksonian to the United States Senate in 1827
2.He served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Twenty-third Congress
3.He was the chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia
4.He was the Chairman of the Committee on Manufactures
5.He was a member of the Virginia State constitutional convention in 1829 and 1830
6.He was a member of the Virginia State house of delegates in 1839
After his retirement from the US President's office, John Tyler continued his social activities. His valuable advices were treasured and used by the State democrats. He played a major role in spreading messages for peace. In 1861, he presided over the peace convention organized in Washington, D.C. At the age of 71, he took his last breath at Richmond in Virginia.
His characteristics and actions had won him few nicknames like 'Honest John', 'His Accidency', 'The Veto President'.
A few of the famous quotations by John Tyler include:
- "Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality."
- "Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette-the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace."
- "Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God."
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