In 1841, William Henry Harrison died in the White House after one month in office, and John Tyler was sworn in to succeed him. But the country wasn't sure if Tyler was actually president or not.
President John Tyler. By Ronald G. Shafer March 31 at 8:00 AM On April 5, 1841, two men on horseback galloped up at sunrise to Vice President John Tyler’s home in Williamsburg, Va. They were there to deliver startling news: President William Henry Harrison had died of pneumonia after only a month in office. Tyler rushed to Washington, arriving at 4 a.m. the next day. At noon, Tyler was sworn in as Harrison’s successor at Brown’s Indian Queen Hotel.
The only reason the Whig Party had picked the former Virginia senator as Harrison’s running mate in the 1840 election was to woo Southern voters. They ran on a ticket known as “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” — a slogan so catchy that it is still remembered 170 years later. Harrison lived in Ohio, though he grew up a few miles down the road from Tyler in Charles City County, Va., near Williamsburg.
“I beg your pardon,” Tyler politely responded. “I am the president, and I shall be responsible for my administration.” Whigs protested outside the White House and hanged Tyler in effigy. One Virginia congressman proposed impeaching the “acting” president. The move failed, thus avoiding another succession crisis since Tyler never had a vice president.Tyler briefly campaigned for another term as an independent in 1844 but dropped out. He left office in early 1845 after Democrat James K. Polk was elected.
But the “Tyler Precedent” lived on. When President Zachary Taylor died of food poisoning in 1850, Vice President Millard Fillmore became president without controversy. The precedent was invoked six more times for presidents Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson.
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