10th President of the United States
John Tyler
“His Accidency”
- In office
- April 4, 1841 – March 4, 1845
- Party
- Whig
- Home state
- Virginia
- Lived
- 1790–1862
- Days in office
- 1,430
- In order
- No. 10: after William Henry Harrison, before James K. Polk
- Vice president
- None
Key achievements & events
- First vice president to become president on a predecessor's death; insisted he held full powers (the "Tyler Precedent")
- Annexed Texas in his last days in office (1845)
- Settled the Maine-Canada border with the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)
- Opened U.S. trade with China (Treaty of Wanghia, 1844)
Remember: His own Whig Party expelled him in 1841. He later sided with the Confederacy and was elected to its Congress.