![]() ![]() He opposed the bill for changing the per diem allowance of members of congress to an annual salary of $1,500. Calhoun introduced his bill in favor of internal improvements, Mr. As a member of congress he soon made himself conspicuous as a strict constructionist. In the regular election to the next congress, out of 200 votes given in his native county, he received all but one. He was re-elected to the legislature annually, until in November, 1816, he was chosen to fill a vacancy in the United States house of representatives. Tyler's company was not called into action. This military service lasted for a month, during which Mr. Tyler married, 29 March, 1813, Letitia, daughter of Robert Christian, and a few weeks afterward, was called into the field at the head of a company of militia to take part in the defence of Richmond and its neighborhood, now threatened by the British. Tyler, in the Virginia legislature, introduced resolutions of censure, in which the senators were taken to task, while the Virginia doctrines, as to the unconstitutional character of the bank and the binding force of instructions, were formally asserted. Of the two Virginia senators, Brent voted in favor of the re-charter, and Giles spoke on the same side, and although, in obedience to instructions, he voted contrary to his own opinion, he did so under protest. Yet there were many in congress who, without approving the principle upon which the bank was founded, thought the eve of war an inopportune season for making a radical change in the financial system of the nation. The instructions denounced the bank as an institution in the founding of which congress had exceeded its powers and grossly violated state rights. The bank was very unpopular in Virginia, and the assembly of that state, by a vote of 125 to 35, instructed its senators at Washington, Richard Brent and William B. The charter of the first Bank of the United States, established in 1791, was to expire in twenty years and in 1811 the question of renewing the charter came before congress. One of his earliest public acts is especially interesting in view of the famous struggle with the Whigs, which in later years he conducted as president. Madison's administration, and the war with Great Britain, which soon followed, afforded him an opportunity to become conspicuous as a forcible and persuasive orator. In 1809 he was admitted to the bar, and had already begun to obtain a good practice when he was elected to the legislature, and took his seat in that body in December, 1811. He was also fond of poetry and music, and, like Thomas Jefferson, was a skilful performer on the violin. At college he showed a strong interest in ancient history. On complaining to Judge Tyler, the indignant school-master was met with the apt reply, "Sic semper tyrannis!" The future president was graduated at William and Mary in 1807. ![]() Tyler said " it was a Wonder he did not whip all the sense out of his scholars." At the age of eleven young Tyler was one of the ringleaders in a rebellion in which the despotic McMurdo was overpowered by numbers, tied hand and foot, and left locked up in the school-house until late at night, when a passing traveller effected an entrance and released him. McMurdo, who was so diligent in his use of the birch that in later years Mr. In early boyhood he attended the small school kept by a Mr. He was the second son of Judge John Tyler and Mary Armistead. TYLER, John, tenth president of the United States, born at Greenway, Charles City County, Virginia, 29 March, 1790 died in Richmond, Virginia, 18 January, 1862. To become this site's editor or a contributorĪ B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĬlick on an image to view full-sized John Tyler ![]() With thousands of 19th Century illustrations, signatures, and exceptional lifeīiographies. If acceptable, the new biography will be published above the 19th CenturyĪppleton's Cyclopedia Biography citing the volunteer editor Submit a rewritten biography in text form. If you would like to edit this biography please We rely on volunteers to edit the historicīiographies on a continual basis. warns that these 19th Centuryīiographies contain errors and bias. Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James ![]()
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