John Tyler

16 of the 49 vice presidents have gone on to become presidents.

Those are John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Teddy Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, and Joe Biden.

Do you remember the, in the, in the eight, oh God, who knows? In the 90s when George Bush lost to Clinton and SNL had that skit where Dana Carvey would play him and he would cry and be like, ''I'm a one-termer.'' Do you remember that? Oh,

yeah.

Oh, my gosh.

So eight of those 16 were due to the death of a president.

The first was John Tyler became the 10th president of the United States upon the death of President William Henry Harrison.

William Henry Harrison died because there was poop in the water at the White House.

Sid.

Yeah, I would go for a president between Doug's choice and David's choice, who's been ignored too much as a bad president, and that's John Tyler.

who succeeded William Henry Harrison.

Harrison, we can talk about this at length, was actually a finger puppet of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster and was going to be the first real Whig president.

Well, we've

gotten to the topic now of vice presidents who become president, and we have number two on our list because it's Tippy Canoe and Tyler, too.

So what do we think of John Tyler as a candidate for this

honor? He had a lot of children.

And people say that a vampire is linked to that particular tomb.

There are other stories of vampires linked to tombs too, but the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond has 18,000 Confederate soldiers buried there, as well as two presidents, James Monroe, known for the Monroe Doctrine, and John Tyler, the last of the Whig Party candidates to serve as president.

There's also the burial site of Confederate President Jefferson Davis there, where he was president during the Civil War.

Lots of different tombstones are haunted there, and a ghostly woman, and a whole bevy of different ghosts marked there.

Then he retired to quiet life in a little village near Cincinnati.

like jackson he was held to be a son of the south and the west like jackson he was a military hero a lesser light but still a light like old hickory he rode into office on a tide of popular feeling against an eastern man accused of being something of an aristocrat his personal popularity was sufficient the whigs who nominated him shrewdly refused to adopt a platform or declare their belief in anything when some democrat asserted that harrison was a backwoodsman whose sole wants were a jug of hard cider and a log cabin the whigs treated the remark not as an insult but as proof positive that harrison deserved the votes of jackson men the jug and the cabin they proudly transformed into symbols of the campaign and won for their chieftain two hundred and thirty-four electoral votes while van buren got only sixty harrison and tyler the hero of tippecanoe was not long to enjoy the fruits of his victory the hungry horde of whig office-seekers descended upon him like wolves upon the fold if he went out they waylaid him if he stayed indoors he was besieged not even his bedchamber was spared he was none too strong at best and he took a deep cold on the day of his inauguration between driving out democrats and appeasing whigs he fell mortally ill before the end of a month he lay dead at the capitol Harrison's successor, John Tyler, the vice president whom the Whigs had nominated to catch votes in Virginia, was more of a Democrat than anything else, though he was not partisan enough to please anybody.

the whigs railed at him because he would not approve the founding of another united states bank the democrats stormed at him for refusing until near the end of his term to sanction the annexation of texas which had declared its independence of mexico in eighteen thirty six his entire administration marked by unseemly wrangling produced only two measures of importance the whigs flushed by victory with the aid of a few protectionist democrats enacted in eighteen forty two a new tariff law destroying the compromise which had brought about the truce between the north and the south in the days of nullification the distinguished leader of the whigs daniel webster as secretary of state in negotiation with lord ashburton representing great britain settled the long-standing dispute between the two countries over the main boundary a year after closing this chapter in american diplomacy webster withdrew to private life leaving the president to endure alone the buffets of political fortune to the end the whigs regarded tyler as a traitor to their cause but the judgment of history is that it was a case of the biter they had nominated him for the vice-presidency as a man of views acceptable to southern democrats in order to catch their votes little reckoning with the chances of his becoming president Tyler had not deceived them and thoroughly soured.

He left the White House in 1845, not to appear in public life again until the days of secession.

And it was completed in 1842, so about 15 years later.

And then it was formally dedicated in 1843 by a president that we've talked about already, President John Tyler.

And more than 100,000 people reportedly were there for the dedication.

you can actually climb this monument.

William Henry Harrison.

John Tyler.

Zachary Taylor.

Millard Fillmore.

A strong movement developed in Congress in favor of regulating or even limiting immigration.

but nothing came of it in a message to congress in eighteen forty one president tyler gave expression to a sentiment that grew stronger with the passing of the years he said We hold out to the people of other countries an invitation to come and settle among us as members of our rapidly growing family.

And for the blessings we offer them, we require of them to look upon our country as their country and unite with us in the great task of preserving our institutions and thereby perpetuating our liberties.

the open-door policy continued for congress was reluctant to abandon the time-honored belief that the united states had been dedicated at the beginning as a refuge for the oppressed people of all nations such legislation as was enacted during this period including three laws for the improvement of conditions on immigrant carrying ships indicated the sympathetic attitude of congress toward the incoming multitudes Congress again favored the foreign-born by providing that aliens who had declared an intention to become citizens might enjoy the benefits of the Homestead Act of 1862.

Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tossed, to me.

I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Checking the Tide the endless stream of newcomers whose economic and political backgrounds differed from those of the earlier immigrants led to a search for some method of checking the new immigration with this end in view the application of a literacy test was advocated presidents cleveland and taft had vetoed acts which contained this provision and president wilson twice repudiated it However, it became part of the general law of 1917 over presidential objection.

In a reference to the immigrants, President Wilson said, Some of the best stuff in America has come out of foreign lands, and some of the best stuff in America is in the men who are naturalized citizens of the United States.