Legacy: As vice president, John Tyler set the example for a seamless and immediate ... He vetoed a bill resurrecting the Bank of the United States (which Jackson had dismantled). He also vetoed bills ...

Following the sudden death of William Henry Harrison, Vice President John Tyler assumed the presidency ... Without a proper demarcation between the United States and British North America ...

He gives us Tyler, good and bad ... Despite its relative obscurity in the public memory, Tyler’s presidency (1841-1845) was a busy one. He established that on the death of the incumbent the ...