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 "As Vice President, Tyler drowned President Harrison in an Executives Only bathing pond. Everyone suspected a Savage assassin, and Tyler assumed the throne of America, along with the empty husband/father position in Harrison's grieving family. Tyler's achievements were overshadowed by his apparent disbelief in witches, which lead to his transformation into one of the rare breeds of horse that Congress then had deemed fuckable by law. Strange time, huh?"
John Tyler (aka "His Accidency") was the first Vice-President to inherit the Presidency. He was a longtime Democratic-Republican who was elected to the Vice Presidency on the Whig ticket, so he was rather unpopular with his former political supporters and had a tenuous relationship with his predecessor during his short vice-presidency.
However, he was responsible for the annexation of Texas, which is something worthwhile (but YMMV). He fathered eight children with his first wife, who died while he was in office, and remarried while he was president, fathering seven more children with his second wife (whom he married after her father was killed in front of both of them by an exploding experimental cannon and she fainted into his arms). The second Mrs. Tyler asked to be addressed as "the Presidentress." Didn't catch on.
In addition to those fifteen legitimate children, there are rumors of him having an illegitimate child. According to The Other Wiki, two of his grandsons are still alive (born 1924 and 1928 respectively - their father, Tyler's son, was born in 1853 when Tyler was 63 years old).
After the South seceded, he was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives but died before taking office.
He was also the first president to have an impeachment attempt directed against him - the initial vote failed 83-127, so that's probably why you never heard of it.
A one-minute biography can be found here.
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