The final residing grandson of the tenth U.S. President John Tyler has died at 96 years outdated — the top of a hyperlink to a bygone period of American historical past.
John Tyler, a Virginian slave proprietor and lifelong Democrat, served because the vp to William Henry Harrison and have become president fairly unexpectedly after Harrison died abruptly three weeks after his inauguration — the primary president to die whereas in workplace.
On the time, succession plans weren’t absolutely established and Tyler was initially hesitant about taking up, in keeping with the Nationwide Structure Heart. He took the oath of workplace in public on April 6, 1841, saying, “I am the President, and I shall be held responsible for my administration.”
John Tyler, the tenth president of the US, from a portray by Alonzo Chappel.
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John Tyler was married twice and had 15 kids — eight kids together with his first spouse, Letitia, who died from a stroke, after which seven extra together with his second spouse, Julia Gardiner Tyler, who was 24 after they married. He fathered a lot of the second set of youngsters in his 50s and 60s; his final baby, a daughter named Pearl, was born when he was 70 years outdated, in keeping with the College of Virginia’s Miller Heart.
Tyler’s thirteenth baby, Lyon, was born when his father was 63 years outdated. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, who served as president of William and Mary Faculty, additionally married twice. Along with his second spouse, Sue Ruffin Tyler, he had two sons born within the Twenties, when Lyon was in his 70s, in keeping with Encyclopedia Virginia.
A type of kids was Harrison Ruffin Tyler.
Harrison Ruffin Tyler lived in Virginia and co-founded ChemTreat, an industrial water therapy firm, in 1968. He cherished historical past and his birthplace, Charles Metropolis County, Virginia, his household mentioned, which led to his work preserving each Sherwood Forest, President Tyler’s dwelling, and Fort Pocahontas, a Civil Conflict fortification close by
“He will be remembered for his considerable charm, generosity and unfailing good humor by all who knew him,” Annique Dunning, govt director of Sherwood Forest, mentioned in a press release.
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