[fidelis]

[packrat35]

Interesting history...

[Mean Daddy]

We were in DC and wanted to go to the homestead when both brothers were alive a couple years ago but it was quite a drive from where we were staying.

[Robert DeLong]

That almost seems surreal. His father was 77 when he was born, which also seems surreal. 😋

[Fledermaus]

Tyler was the first VP to take over for the first President that died in office.

As usual, even back then, many in Congress challenged his ascension to President. Probably Democrats. The new Constitution be damned.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Tippecanoe and...

[fidelis]

He also had a historic lineage on the side of his mother, Susan Ruffin Tyler, and was a direct descendant of Pocahontas.

As one wag noted in the comments to the article, "Oh, so that means he was related to Elizabeth Warren?" 😂😂😂

[FreeReign]

This guy who was alive in 2025 had a granddad who was born in 1790. Wow.

[Labyrinthos]

My son went to boarding school with Harrison Ruffin Tyler’s grandson. They were close friends, and as a result, my son visited the Tyler family plantation in Virginia several times.

I often met Harrison Ruffin Tyler during school functions. He was in his 70’s at the time. A very good looking man with an unmistakable likeness to his famous grandfather. A southern gentleman in all respects.

[Honorary Serb]

.....He is survived by three children and numerous grandchildren.....

So the Tyler lineage continues! Bravo!

[Captainpaintball]

Please tell me he died when he was in a canoe, and it tipped over?

[dljordan]

“Born into a prominent slaveholding Virginia family in 1790”

Gotta get that in there, mmm, mmm, mmm.

[Midwesterner53]

The article forgot to mention that once Virginia left the union, Tyler became very pro Confederate and was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives but died before he could take office.

[Verginius Rufus]

His first name is possibly after President William Henry Harrison (or possibly the President’s father, Benjamin Harrison, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence). His middle name could be in honor of Edmund Ruffin, Southern “fire-eater” who committed suicide in 1865 after the South lost, rather than live under Yankee rule...supposedly fired the first shot at Fort Sumter.

[mware]

Do I recall correctly that this guys father fought at Gettysburg on the 3rd day. Was in Picketts Charge. (Killer Angels, event mentioned by Arminstead to British observer)

[UnwashedPeasant]

I hope he kept up the tradition and had a young child.

[Larry Lucido]

He was a Van Buren boy. Martin Van Buren himself taught him the sign.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Wow. Thanks for posting.

[SaveFerris]

(Alma mater: College of William & Mary)

Oh no ... Won’t do ...

[rfp1234]

But he fell out with the Whig Party, who chose not to nominate him for reelection, instead opting for Henry Clay, who lost to the Democrat James K. Polk.

Polk, the last great Democrat.