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John Tyler

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 29, 2015 by Brianboulton (talk) 14:14, 8 March 2015 (UTC)



John Tyler (1790–1862) was the 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 the United States presidential election of 1840. Tyler was elected vice president on the Whig Party ticket led by William Henry Harrison, and became president after his running mate's death in April 1841. Harrison's death made Tyler the first vice president to succeed to the presidency without being elected to the office. Tyler immediately moved into the White House, took the oath of office, 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. Although he faced a stalemate on domestic policy, Tyler had several foreign-policy achievements, including the Webster–Ashburton Treaty with Britain and the Treaty of Wanghia with Qing China. President Tyler dedicated his last two years in office to the annexation of Texas. After his presidency, he retired to his Virginia plantation. When the American Civil War began in 1861, Tyler sided with the Confederate government, and won election to the Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death.
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 * Main editors: Designate, Wehwalt
 * Promoted: 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: 225th birthday
 * Support as nominator. Wehwalt (talk) 17:30, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support president covered with quality, on an anniversary, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:39, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - per Gerda Arendt.--BabbaQ (talk) 17:37, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support. The selection of this well-written article as TFA will be a good introduction for many Americans to one of the more obscure United States presidents. Bede735 (talk) 13:18, 8 March 2015 (UTC)