[BrexitBen]

John Tyler was a great president, even though the northeast historians rank him among the worst.

Their heroes are Lincoln, FDR, and Obama.

[FLT-bird]

Like the corporate media, you should automatically go in exactly the opposite direction. If they say a president was good, he was awful. If they hate him, you know he was good.

[higgmeister]

John Tyler was a great president, even though the northeast historians rank him among the worst.

But John Tyler has a grandson still alive today:

Harrison Ruffin Tyler, Grandson of 10th President John Tyler

[Verginius Rufus]

I think Tyler was basically a disgruntled Democrat--so even though he was elected VP on the Whig ticket, he did not see eye-to-eye with Whig politicians.

Tyler is the only former President of the United States to be elected to the Congress of the Confederate States of America.