John Tyler
1790 – 1862 American 10th President of the United States
Tenth U.S. president and first to succeed by death of a president.
- Religion
- Episcopalian
- Affiliations
- Whig Party (later expelled); not a Freemason.
Tyler established the precedent that a vice president fully assumes the presidency on the death of the incumbent. He signed the annexation of Texas in 1845. Late in life he sided with the Confederacy.