John Tyler
John Tyler
John Tylerwas the tenth President of the United States. He was also, briefly, the tenth vice president, elected to that office on the 1840 Whig ticket with William Henry Harrison. Tyler became president after Harrison's death in April 1841, only a month after the start of the new administration. Known to that point as a supporter of states' rights, which endeared him to his fellow Virginians, his actions as president showed that he was willing to back nationalist policies as...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth29 March 1790
CountryUnited States of America
If we find ourselves increasing beyond example in numbers, in strength, in wealth, in knowledge, in everything which promotes human and social happiness, let us ever remember our dependence for all these on the protection and merciful dispensations of Divine Providence.
But many people around the state and even around the country are going to get to experience that for the next three years.
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.
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquettethe more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.
This is an exciting day for the City of Tyler,
When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?
If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.
It was hard graft all the way and a good result in the end.
Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.
In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life.
The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.
I can never consent to being dictated to.
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent - that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgement.