Worst Presidents: John Tyler (1841-1845)

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carson of IL 9:29AM May 11, 2012

HE BELEIVED IN SLAVERY!!!!!!

carson of IL 10:02AM May 10, 2012

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carson of IL 10:00AM May 10, 2012

Tyler was the worst U.S. president ever. We are a union based on freedom. He stood for seperation and slavery.

Ross A Johnson of IL 3:17AM March 12, 2012

but best Whig President?

oddsox 1:17PM February 21, 2012

P.S. J. Laub. Don't be a tool bag. First Nation American Indian people have not gotten over genocide and Jews have not gotten over the holocaust. That's not the way oppression works. If it worked that way, Indians would have a national voice & power outside the reservation and Israel would have no need for statehood. Think.

salemowalk of TX 5:42PM January 19, 2012

The question of why theses antebellum presidents are ranked so poorly has less to do with their stance on slavery itself, and more to do with their inaction and appeasement around the issue. When the nation is in crisis, it needs a President who will make sound, thoughtful, and ethical decisions to avert crisis. Most of these presidents failed to do that. In fact, they all seem to fit into one (or more) of four categories: failure in preventing succession, failure in preventing/ending financial crisis, failure to end corruption in their administration, and failure to stay alive long enough to enact policies. It seems that Americans value wrong decision more than indecision.

salemowalk of TX 5:31PM January 19, 2012

This guy is a really bad president or thats my opinion!

Sally of KY 1:40PM January 05, 2012

So wrong...so wrong. The man had reasons for vetoing a National Bank and just because he opposed the ideals of his party makes him awful? Retarted.

Gianfranco Ocampo of IL 9:17PM December 08, 2011

It's true that the Constitution at the time undermined Tyler's claim to be a full-fledged president. But then he failed to consolidate his power once in office.
Being an ex-Democrat party-jumper, the Whigs didn't totally trust Tyler from the start, and then he abandons the Whig platform. He goes on to nominate 22 people for the six Cabinet positions, because they keep quitting on him. Tyler finally gets kicked out of his own party.
He once claimed that his great achievement as president was getting Texas, then an independent republic, admitted to the Union. The trouble with Tyler's boast is that Texas leaders like Sam Houston had always wanted Texas to join the US anyway. Plus, its admission was universally deemed necessary to preserve the delicate slave state-free state balance in Congress. In reality, Texas joining the Union was a no-brainer.
On his last full day as president, Congress overrides one of Tyler's vetoes -- the first time in American history this had occurred. That's embarrassing.
During the Civil War, being a Virginian and a strong states'-rights guy, Tyler gets elected to the Confederate House of Representatives. Thus many Northerners regard him as a turncoat, and when he dies in mid-war in 1862, he becomes the only president, ever, whose death is not officially mourned in Washington.
Tyler's experiences had something to do with circumstance, but he also lacked the political skill to make much out of his opportunities. He's a Bottom 10 president in my book.

creamnsugar of FL 9:53PM August 21, 2011