John Tyler

John Tyler, born March 29, 1790, in Charles City County, Virginia, and died January 18, 1862, in Richmond, Virginia, served as the tenth President of the United States from 1841 to 1845, becoming the first Vice President to succeed to the presidency on the death of a sitting president, William Henry Harrison. His insistence that he had become president in full rather than merely an acting president, a position some in Congress disputed, established a precedent for presidential succession later codified in the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Near the end of his term he signed the joint congressional resolution annexing Texas to the United States. Expelled from the Whig Party during his term for vetoing its legislative program, he was derisively nicknamed His Accidency.