He was the first person in American history to become president of the United States without an election, and his reputation is generally low for John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States.
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The United States is a country created by a coalition of British colonial states, and there are a large number of people from Virginia, where the first British colony was built, including the first president George Washington.
This would be the same theory that many Japanese Prime Ministers were from Yamaguchi Prefecture, where the Choshu Domain was located. The tenth president, John Tyler, is also from Virginia.
Born in Charles City County, Virginia, the same as the ninth president, William Harrison, his birthplace runs a large plantation with 40 black slaves on 1200 acres. Born in a very wealthy family.
John studied at the same prestigious William &Mary University in Virginia as Thomas Jefferson, participated in the War of 1812 in 1812, and subsequently served as Vice President, Senator, and Governor of Virginia to follow his father. When William Harrison of his hometown became president, he served as vice president.
However, when William Harrison died of pneumonia in the first month of his tenure, he was appointed as the tenth president of the United States.
It was John Tyler's first move from the Vice President, and there was a lot of opposition to the move, and it wasn't until 1967 that the succession was officially recognized.
Perhaps because of such circumstances, John Tyler became a self-reliant president and deepened his confrontation with the federal parliament in particular. John Tyler was expelled from the Whig Party as a result of a fierce conflict with Henry Clay, the leader of the Whig Party he belonged to, who had exercised nine "vetos" or vetos during his term. ..
It's a little confusing around here, but John Tyler was a member of the Whigs before becoming president, and the US president has a veto power over Congress.
The Prime Minister of Japan does not have such a veto right, and if a vote of no confidence is issued, the Cabinet must be dissolved or resigned. In other words, it can be said that the President of the United States has far stronger power than the Prime Minister of Japan.
Also, "veto", which stands for veto, is originally a Latin word, and is derived from the fact that the republican Roman consul (consul) had "veto".
It can be seen that the political system of the United States was created with reference to the Roman Republic.
10th President of the United States
Many reasons why John Tyler was elected the worst president of the United States may be due to a domestic rebellion, which is rare in American history.
The rebellion, also known as the flooding of doors, took place in 1841 in Rhode Island. The state is the smallest state in the United States in the southern United States, and at that time it was the only state without universal suffrage by whites. Therefore, the citizens of the state ignored the parliament and chose a person named Thomas Door as the governor, and this door launched an armed uprising in search of universal suffrage. John Tyler dispatches federal troops here to suppress the rebellion. The incident is recorded as a rare domestic rebellion in American history.
In addition, during his tenure, the Republic of Texas, which became independent of Mexico, was merged into the United States, and the state of Texas joined the United States as a slave state in the south, which sparked the subsequent Civil War. Actually, when it was Texas and Mexican territory, slavery was abolished, but it became a slave state when entering the United States. The southern economy relied on the production of cotton, which inevitably required black slaves.
Other than that, there is no merit.
In 1861, John Tyler died of bronchitis. His last words were "I am going. Perhaps it is best."
Personal evaluation of John Tyler
During this period, the United States was expanding rapidly economically, territorially, and demographically. While the conflict over slavery in the north and south intensified, John Titor was reckless without taking any action there.
There was no particular mismanagement, but in terms of doing nothing in particular, he would have been unavoidably elected one of the worst presidents of the United States.