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John Tyler tenth President of the United States (1841–45). He served as a Virginia state legislator , governor , U.S. representative , and senator before his election as vice president in 1840 on the Whig Party ticket led by William Henry Harrison . He became the first vice president to succeed to the presidency without being elected to the office after his running mate 's death in April 1841. Taking the oath of office , he immediately moved into the White House and assumed full presidential powers, a precedent that would govern future successions and eventually become codified in the Twenty-fifth Amendment . He found much of the Whig program unconstitutional , and vetoed several of his party's bills. The Whigs, led by Kentucky Senator Henry Clay , dubbed him "His Accidency", and expelled him from the party. Stalemated on domestic policy, Tyler had several foreign-policy achievements, including the Webster–Ashburton Treaty with Britain and the Treaty of Wanghia with Qing China . He dedicated his last two years in office to the annexation of Texas , then retired to his Virginia plantation. When the Civil War began in 1861, Tyler won election to the Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death. (Full article...
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