He took office in 1841, after William Henry Harrison died. And he still has ... Lyon Gardiner Tyler, one of President Tyler’s 15 children, was born in 1853 when the former president was 63 ...

William Harrison ... and unbeknownst to Harrison, would be rejected by his successor and vice president, John Tyler. The Whigs, led by Henry Clay, fielded Harrison as a war hero candidate in ...

Following the sudden death of William Henry Harrison, Vice President John Tyler ... thirty years his junior and younger than some of his children. The marriage prospered, and it was Julia who ...

Due to his military career, William Henry Harrison became the frontrunner of the Whig Party—a new political faction assembled by opposition to Jackson. Despite his aristocratic Virginian roots, the ...