Letitia Christian Tyler (1790-1842)
Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820-1889)
There
was NO Vice President!!!!!
"Here lies the
body of a good horse, 'The General'. For twenty years he bore
me around the circuit of my practice, and in all that time he
never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same!"
(Inscription written
by John Tyler on a grave in Virginia)
Vice President John Tyler became President
upon William Henry Harrison's death one month after his inauguration.
U.S. Circuit Court Judge William Cranch Administered the oath
to Mr. Tyler at his residence in the Indian Queen Hotel on April
6, 1841. John Tyler was the first Vice President
to assume the responsibilities of the Presidency upon the death
of William Henry Harrison in 1841. There was nothing in the Constitution
that provided for the vice president to BECOME the president.
Article II, Section 6 of the Constitution states that: "In
case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death,
resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties
of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President
......." The Article did not state that the vice president
would BECOME the President! Tyler immediately began to refer
to himself as the President with no actual Constitutional authority
to do so, and every succeeding vice president in the same position
did the same. It was not until the Twenty-Fifth Amendment was
passed in 1967 that the vice president technically BECAME the
president. This amendment legitimatized Tyler's unconstitutional
assumption!
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