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President John Tyler
President John Tyler How many people actually know of the tenth president, John
Tyler? Well, I bet not very many so I am here to give some facts. Do
you know where and when he was born? Hmmm, I thought so. He was born
on March 29, 1790, in Charles City County, Virginia. This fine man
graduated from the College of William and Mary at the age of
seventeen. Not impress enough? In addition, he went on to study law
and became an employee for a prestigious law firm in Richmond. At the
age of twenty-one, Tyler used his father’s connections to obtain a
position in the Virginia House of Delegates. This southern aristocrat
immediately began fighting the Bank of the United States. Luckily, he
was born a few years after the American Revolution and did not have to
serve during that time. However, serving his country was his destiny
and during the War of 1812 he served the military. Soon after that he
quickly became a Washington Insider and Andrew Jackson was the current
president. John did not like Andrew Jackson’s belief of restricting
slavery in new states west of Missouri. He saw it as such an abuse of
federal power and later resigned from the Congress. Wow, wasn’t he a
stubborn fellow? John Tyler was from the south and an obvious advocate
of slavery. That was how he was brought up so what could I say? In
love with public service, he returned to Washington as a member of the
U.S. Senate. He teamed up with . . . read more.
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