Education:
Graduated from the College of William and Mary (1807)
Occupation:
Lawyer
Religion:
Episcopalian
Wife:
Letitia Chrisitan (1790-1842), on March 29,
1813;
Julia Gardiner (1820-1889), on June 26, 1844
Children:
Mary Tyler (1815-48);
Robert Tyler
(1816-77);
John Tyler (1819-96);
Letitia Tyler (1821-1907);
Elizabeth Tyler (1823-50);
Anne Contesse Tyler (1825);
Alice Tyler
(1827-54);
Tazewell Tyler (1830-74);
David Gardiner Tyler (1846-1927);
John Alexander Tyler (1848-83);
Julia Gardiner Tyler
(1849-71);
Lachlan Tyler (1851-1902);
Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853-1935);
Robert Fitzwalter Tyler (1856-1927);
Pearl Tyler (1860-1947)
Father:
John
Tyler
Mother:
Mary
Marot Armistead Tyler
Years in
office:
(April 6, 1841 to March 3, 1845)
Born:
March
29, 1790, in Greenway, Virginia
Died:
January 18, 1862, in Richmond, Virginia
Age at
death:
72
Elected
from:
Virginia
Political
Party:
Whig
Other Government
Positions:
Member of Virginia House of Delegates, 1811-16
Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1816-21
Virginia State Legislator,
1823-25
Governor of Virginia, 1825-26
United States Senator,
1827-36
Vice President, 1841 (under W. H.
Harrison)
Member of Confederate States Congress, 1861-62
Presidential
Salary:
$25,000/year
Vice
President:
None
Secretary of
State:
Daniel Webster (1841-43)
Abel P. Upshur (1843-44)
John
C. Calhoun (1844-45)
Secretary of the
Treasury:
Thomas Ewing (1841)
Walter Forward (1841-43)
John
C. Spencer (1843-44)
George M. Bibb (1844-45)
Secretary of
War:
John Bell (1841)
John C. Spencer (1841-43)
James M.
Porter (1843-44)
William Wilkins (1844-45)
Attorney
General:
John J. Crittenden (1841)
Hugh S. Legare (1841-43)
John Nelson (1843-45)
Postmaster
General
Francis Granger (1841)
Charles A. Wickliffe (1841-45)
Secretary of the
Navy:
George E. Badger (1841)
Abel P. Upshur (1841-43)
David
Henshaw (1843-44)
Thomas W. Gilmer (1844)
John Y. Mason (1844-45)
Links /
Resources:
The White
House
Sherwood
Forest Plantation
PO Box 1427