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John Tyler March 29, — January 18, was the tenth president of the United States , serving from to , after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in He was elected vice president on the Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison , succeeding to the presidency following Harrison's death 31 days after assuming office. Tyler was a stalwart supporter and advocate of states' rights , including regarding slavery , and he adopted nationalistic policies as president only when they did not infringe on the states' powers.

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His unexpected rise to the presidency posed a threat to the presidential ambitions of Henry Clay and other Whig politicians and left Tyler estranged from both of the nation's major political parties at the time. Tyler was born into a prominent slaveholding Virginia family. He became a national figure at a time of political upheaval.

In the s, the Democratic-Republican Party , at the time the nation's only political party , split into several factions. Initially a Jacksonian Democrat , Tyler opposed President Andrew Jackson during the nullification crisis as he saw Jackson's actions as infringing on states' rights and criticized Jackson's expansion of executive power during Jackson's veto on banks.

This led Tyler to ally with the southern faction of the Whig Party. He served as a Virginia state legislator and governor, U. Tyler was a regional Whig vice-presidential nominee in the presidential election ; they lost. He was the sole nominee on the Whig presidential ticket as William Henry Harrison's running mate. President Harrison died just one month after taking office, and Tyler became the first vice president to succeed to the presidency.

Amid uncertainty as to whether a vice president succeeded a deceased president, or merely took on his duties, Tyler immediately took the presidential oath of office , setting a lasting precedent.

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He signed into law some of the Whig-controlled Congress's bills, but he was a strict constructionist and vetoed the party's bills to create a national bank and raise tariff rates. He believed that the president, rather than Congress, should set policy, and he sought to bypass the Whig establishment led by Senator Henry Clay. Almost all of Tyler's cabinet resigned shortly into his term and the Whigs expelled him from the party and dubbed him "His Accidency".