Easton Press: JOHN TYLER: VIRGINIA: 10TH PRESIDENT: WHIGS: HARRISON V.P.

Description: Easton Press leather edition of Robert Seager's "And Tyler too: A Biography of John and Julia Gardiner Tyler," a Collector's edition, one of the LIBRARY OF THE PRESIDENTS series, published in 1963. Bound in gray leather, the book has decorative paper end leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. John Tyler, who lived from 1790-1862, was the 10th President of the U.S., 1841-1845. Tyler was born into a slave owning Virginia family. He graduated from the College of William and Mary and read law with his father and became a lawyer. Tyler became President as the result of his predecessor's death, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, having died in office one month after his 1841 inauguration. Tyler, at fifty-one, was the youngest man ever to become President. Considered merely an "acting President" by the Whigs in Congress, Tyler had to fight their attempts to limit his powers. His administration scored several notable achievements, including the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, settling the dispute with England over the northern border of the U.S. and that year saw the end of the long and bloody war with the Seminole Indians that eventually paved the way for Florida's statehood in 1845. Early in 1845, Tyler signed the resolution authorizing the annexation of Texas. Tyler was a cultured, charming, Virginia gentleman. After his first wife died at the White House in 1842, he remarried one of the great belles of the century: JULIA GARDINER with the wedding reception in the flower-laden Blue Room of the White House attended by a "throng of distinguished people." Tyler's grown children intensely disliked the new stepmother. Julia was considered a "real beauty." She was thirty years old and he was fifty-four. The wedding took place four months after the death of his first wife with whom Tyler fathered eight children. Tyler and Julia became parents to seven children, five in nine years. Sexy John Tyler fathered fifteen children---more than any other President---and the last one when he was 70 years old! Sherwood Forest was an expensive plantation to maintain and scarcely a harvest season passed that John Tyler did not wish he were a wealthy man. He wanted his young wife and growing family to have every luxury money could buy. The book's title derives from the slogan---"Tippecanoe and Tyler too"--that helped Harrison, the hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe---win the Presidency. John Tyler died in 1862, leaving his forty-one- year widow frightened and unsettled. With seven children to rear, one still in arms, a plantation of sixteen hundred acres and seventy slaves to manage, Tyler's debts to face, and a savage war still to be reckoned with, Julia was shaken. Julia died in 1889 and was buried beside her husband in HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY in Richmond. 681 pages. I offer combined shipping.

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