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Glossary Term – Event
Harrison died; Tyler became president
John Tyler became president upon the death of William Henry Harrison.
Glossary Term – Person
John Tyler
John Tyler (1790–1862) was the first vice president to succeed to the office on the death of a sitting president. When Tyler took over after William Henry Harrison’s death, his presidency established the right of a vice president-turned-president to assume the full powers and privileges of that office, on equal terms of legitimacy with a directly elected president. Though Tyler did eventually win grudging acknowledgement of his authority, it was at great political cost. In his inauguration speech, he had appeared to espouse solid Whig...
Glossary Term – Person
John C. Calhoun
John C. Calhoun (1782–1850) was a congressman and senator from South Carolina and a vice president of the United States under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Calhoun played an influential role in the Nullification Crisis during Jackson’s presidency. After the passage of the Tariff of Abominations in 1828, Calhoun proposed state nullification of the law in South Carolina, arguing that states could block the enforcement of federal laws not adopted as Constitutional amendments. Though South Carolina eventually followed Calhoun’s...