Born in Virginia in 1790, he was to believe that the Constitution must be interpreted strictly accommodated. He has never wavered from this conviction. He studied at the College of William and Mary and studied law.
In the Chamber of Deputies 1816-1821 Tyler voted against most nationalist legislation and against the Missouri Compromise. After leaving the House he served as governor of Virginia. As a Senator he reluctantly supported Jackson for President as a choice of evils. Tyler quickly the Member States the right Southerners in Congress who streaked with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and their newly formed Whig party against President Jackson.
The Whigs nominated Tyler for Vice President in 1840 in the hope of obtaining support from the South "Righter, could not endure the Jackson Democracy. The slogan" Tippecanoe and Tyler Too "implied flagwaving southern nationalism plus a dash of particularism.
Clay, intending to keep party leadership in his own hands, minimized his nationalist views temporarily; Webster proclaimed himself "a Jeffersonian Democrat." But after the election, both men tried to dominate "Old Tippecanoe."
Suddenly, President Harrison was dead, and "Tyler too" was in the White House. At the beginning of the Whigs were not too disturbing, but Tyler insisted on the assumption that the powers of a duly elected president. He even has advice inaugural address, but it seemed full of good Whig doctrine. Whigs, optimistic that Tyler would accept their program, were soon disappointed.
Tyler was ready to compromise on the banking question, but Clay did not yield. He would not accept Tyler's "exchequer system," and Tyler Clay founded veto bill for a national bank with branches in different states. A similar bank bill was passed by Congress. But the states' rights grounds, Tyler veto it.
In return, the Whigs expelled Tyler from their party. All the Cabinet resigned but Secretary of State Webster. A year later, as was Tyler vetoes a bill rate, the first impeachment resolution against a president introduced in the House of Representatives. A committee headed by Representative John Quincy Adams reported that the President had misused the veto, but the resolution failed.
Despite their differences, adopt President Tyler and the Whig Congress much positive legislation. The "Log Cabin" bill is a settler to claim 160 acres before being publicly offered for sale, and later pay $ 1.25 per acre.
In 1842, Tyler signed a bill protecting northern manufacturers rate. The Webster-Ashburton treaty ended a Canadian border dispute in 1845 Texas was annexed.
The management of this states'-righter strengthened the Presidency. But also increased sectional cleavage that led toward civil war. By the end of his term Tyler had replaced the original Whig Cabinet with southern conservatives. In 1844 Calhoun became Secretary of State. Later, these men back into the Democratic Party that deals with the preservation of states' rights, planter interests, and the institution of slavery. More representative of the Northern Whigs economy and agriculture.
As the first breakaway Southern states in 1861, Tyler led a compromise move, otherwise he was to create the South. He died in 1862, a member of the Confederate House of Representatives.
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