John Tyler | 60-Second Presidents | PBS

Here's everything you need to know about John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States, in just 60 seconds.

60-Second Presidents is a collaboration between PBS LearningMedia and PBS Digital Studios, and is produced by Kornhaber Brown.

[CasiodorusRex]

The best part about this guy is that two of his grandsons are still alive.

[GoFartherPodcast]

Highly underrated and misunderstood president: he peacefully resolved border disputes with Canada; helped end one of the bloodiest Native American wars in history; worked to end the Atlantic Slave Trade (regardless of his intentions); didn’t typically overuse his executive power; helped establish security by assuming the office of president; stuck to his principles; and kept revenues and expenditures in balance.

[theredstoneminecartsebtrm]

I feel sorry for him because he said no one wants me ; (

[SuperGreatSphinx]

John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845 after briefly being the tenth Vice President (1841); he was elected to the latter office on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison.

Tyler ascended to the presidency after Harrison's death in April 1841, only a month after the start of the new administration.

He was a supporter of states' rights, and as president he adopted nationalist policies only when they did not infringe on the powers of the states.

His unexpected rise to the presidency, with the resulting threat to the presidential ambitions of Henry Clay and other politicians, left him estranged from both major political parties.

Tyler, born to a prominent Virginia family, became a national figure at a time of political upheaval.

In the 1820s, the nation's only political party, the Democratic-Republicans, split into factions.

He was initially a Democrat, but opposed Andrew Jackson during the Nullification Crisis, seeing his actions as infringing upon states' rights, and criticized his expansion of executive power during the Bank War.

This led him to ally with the Whig Party.

Tyler served as a Virginia state legislator, governor, U.S. representative, and U.S. senator.

He was put on the 1840 presidential ticket to attract states' rights Southerners to a Whig coalition to defeat Martin Van Buren's re-election bid.

With the death of President Harrison, Tyler became the first vice president to succeed to the presidency without election.

After Harrison's one-month term, Tyler served longer than any president in U.S. history not elected to the office.

To forestall constitutional uncertainty, Tyler immediately took the oath of office, moved into the White House, and assumed full presidential powers, a precedent that governed future successions and was codified in the Twenty-fifth Amendment.

A strict constructionist, Tyler found much of the Whig platform unconstitutional, and vetoed several of his party's bills.

Believing that the president should set policy rather than Congress, he sought to bypass the Whig establishment, most notably Kentucky Senator Henry Clay.

Most of Tyler's Cabinet resigned soon into his term, and the Whigs, dubbing him His Accidency, expelled him from the party.

Tyler was the first president to see his veto of legislation overridden by Congress.

Although he faced a stalemate on domestic policy, he had several foreign-policy achievements, including the Webster–Ashburton Treaty with Britain and the Treaty of Wanghia with Qing China.

The Republic of Texas separated from Mexico in 1836; Tyler, a firm believer in manifest destiny, saw its annexation as providing an economic advantage to the United States, and worked diligently to make it happen.

He initially sought election to a full term as president, but after failing to gain the support of either Whigs or Democrats, he withdrew in support of Democrat James K. Polk, who favored annexation.

Polk won the election, and Tyler signed a bill to annex Texas three days before leaving office.

Under Polk, the process was completed.

After the American Civil War began in 1861, Tyler won election to the Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death.

Although some have praised Tyler's political resolve, his presidency is generally held in low regard by historians.

He is considered an obscure president, with little presence in American cultural memory.

[sambradley]

The 1st VP to succeed his predecessor as a result of the predecessor's passing, paved the way for the passage of the 25th Amendment.

[sambradley]

Happy 229, President John Tyler Jr! 🎂

[ISPreteristForce]

Two of his grandsons were still alive in 2020.

[cc_cruiser]

He died a traitor. Only good things he did was give us Texas and have a grandson that’s still alive today.

[elliesyoutubechannel]

What am I doing here I got a power point to do about john Tyler I gonna put this in my power point

[Nyrua]

Would it possible to turn these into 120 second presidents with the only difference being that you slow down when you speak?

[matthewhedrichjr.]

Arguably one of the most divisive presidents since he did both good and bad things as president but is not as bad as James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson were

[handrikc]

Am I the only one who has the impression that this channel shows every non-liberal president in a negative light? He left the democrats voluntary, so he could have been in a party if he wanted to. Why don't they mention his peaceful and successful foreign policy?

[motivatedbygrace]

What would I do if I have his original document

[joshuaba]

March 29 1790
January 18 1862
Age 71

[heavenly_]

i feel sad that he messed with texas the state i live in 😭😭😭