John Tyler, the 10th U.S. president ... was born in 1853 when the former president was 63 years old. Elected to Virginia’s state legislature in 1887, Lyon Tyler Gardiner arranged for the ...

Born: March 29, 1790, in Greenway, Virginia... Following the sudden death of William Henry Harrison, Vice President John Tyler assumed the presidency. "His Accidency" quickly ran afoul of his own ...