John Tyler
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释义 | John Tyler
John TylerTyler, John,1790–1862, 10th President of the United States, b. Charles City co., Va.Early CareerEducated at the College of William and Mary, he studied law under his father, John Tyler (1747–1813), governor of Virginia from 1808 to 1811, and was admitted (1809) to the bar. A state legislator (1811–16, 1823–25) and U.S. Representative (1817–21), Tyler was an unswerving states' rightsstates' rights, Governor of Virginia (1825–27) and a U.S. Senator (1827–36), Tyler reluctantly supported Jackson as the least objectionable of the presidential candidates in 1828 and 1832. Although he did not approve South Carolina's nullification act, he violently opposed Jackson's measures against it (see force billforce bill, PresidencyIn 1840, Tyler was chosen running mate to the Whig presidential candidate, William Henry HarrisonHarrison, William Henry, After his second veto of a measure creating a national bank with branches in the states (on the grounds that it violated the constitutional rights of the states), his cabinet, except for Daniel WebsterWebster, Daniel, Nevertheless he accomplished much toward the annexation of Texas. Abel P. UpshurUpshur, Abel Parker Later CareerTyler, nominated by a small Democratic faction, had withdrawn from the 1844 election. In Feb., 1861, he presided over the unsuccessful conference at Washington that attempted to find some last-minute solution to avert the Civil War. Later, he served in the provisional Confederate Congress and was elected to the permanent Confederate Congress, but he died before he could take his seat. BibliographySee L. G. Tyler (his son), Letters and Times of the Tylers (3 vol., 1884–96, repr. 1970); biographies by O. P. Chitwood (1939, repr. 1964) and G. May (2008); studies by R. J. Morgan (1954) and N. L. Peterson (1989). Tyler, John(1790–1862) tenth U.S. president; born in Charles City County, Va. Trained as a lawyer, Tyler steadily ascended the political ladder, gaining the state legislature in 1811, the U.S. House of Representatives (1816–19), the Virginia governorship (1825–27), and the U.S. Senate (1827–36). Highly active as a senator, he maintained a states' rights position and resisted all attempts to regulate slavery; he resigned from the Senate to protest President Jackson's antinullification measures. Gravitating to the anti-Jackson Whigs, Tyler won election as Benjamin Harrison's vice-president in 1840, then ascended to the presidency on Harrison's death in April 1841. He soon alienated his Whig supporters by resisting a new national bank; at one point he had to lead the White House staff in holding off a violent mob, and in 1843 the Whigs even threatened to impeach him. Nonetheless, his term saw the Webster-Ashburton Treaty fixing the borders of the U.S. and Canada; he also encouraged the move to annex Texas. Long out of the public eye after failing to be nominated in 1844, Tyler headed a Southern peace mission to find a compromise to avoid splitting the Union in 1861. When that failed, he voted for Virginia to secede and was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives just before his death.John Tyler
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