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Historians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation's least effective heads of state. In President without a Party—the first full-scale biography of Tyler in more than fifty years and the first new academic study of him in eight decades—Christopher J. Leahy explores the life of the tenth chief executive of the United States. Born in the Virginia Tidewater into an elite family sympathetic to the ideals of the American Revolution, Tyler, like his father, worked as an attorney before entering politics. Leahy uses a wealth of primary source materials to chart Tyler's early political path, from his election to the Virginia legislature in 1811, through his stints as a congressman and senator, to his vice-presidential nomination on the Whig ticket for the campaign of 1840. When William Henry Harrison died unexpectedly a mere month after assuming the presidency, Tyler became the first vice president to become president because of the death of the incumbent. Leahy traces Tyler's ascent to the highest office in the land and unpacks the fraught dynamics between Tyler and his fellow Whigs, who ultimately banished the beleaguered president from their ranks and stymied his el
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- Author
- Christopher J. Leahy
- Publisher
- Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780807173541
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (132 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14