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Robert Tyle was the son of President John Tyler and Letitia (Christian). He was born on September 9, 1816 in Charles City County, Va.
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Robert Tyle was the son of President John Tyler and Letitia (Christian). He was born on September 9, 1816 in Charles City County, Va.
Like his father and grandfather, he was educated at the College of William and Mary, graduating in 1835. He then studied law under Prof. Beverley Tucker.
He began practice in Williamsburg.
When John Tyler became president in 1841, Robert took up his residence in Washington, acting as private secretary to his father, while his wife presided as mistress of the White House during the first year of the administration.
The young man found time while thus engaged to write two serious poems of a religious nature; Ahasuerus and Death: or Medorus' Dream, published in 1842 and 1843 respectively.
Toward the close of President Tyler's term of office, Robert moved to Philadelphia and at once began to take a leading part in the politics of that city. In 1844 he was elected president of the Irish Repeal Association.
In 1847 he became solicitor to the sheriff of Philadelphia, and a little later was made prothonotary to the supreme court of Pennsylvania.
During the Mexican War he recruited a regiment in Philadelphia, but its services were declined (L. G. Tyler, post, II, 456). Meanwhile, he had become a political friend of James Buchanan, secretary of state under President Polk. Buchanan had not been friendly to the Tyler administration, and the ex-president seems to have had no part in making this alliance nor in shaping the career of his son at this time (Ibid. , II, 494).
In 1852 Robert Tyler supported Buchanan for the Democratic nomination for the presidency.
In 1854 he became one of the earliest advocates of a Pacific railway.
In 1856 Henry A. Wise, a close friend of the Tylers, was elected governor of Virginia, and he and Robert Tyler were able to bring Virginia to the support of the Pennsylvanian in the Cincinnati convention of 1856. This service was followed by Tyler's appointment in 1858 to the chairmanship of the Democratic executive committee of Pennsylvania (C. H. Ambler, "Correspondence of Robert M. T. Hunter, " Annual Report of the American Historical Asso. 1916, 1918, II, 299-300).
When the Civil War broke out, a Philadelphia mob attacked the home of the Virginian because of his well-known Southern sympathies, and he was forced to flee to Richmond. It was not long before President Davis appointed him to be register of the Confederate Treasury. In this capacity he published valuable reports on Confederate shipping and finance.
At the end of the war, he removed his family to Montgomery, Ala. , and in 1867 became editor of the Montgomery Mail and Advertiser. This position enabled him to take a leading part in the expulsion of Carpet-bag rule from Alabama, and his work was recognized by his appointment as chairman of the Democratic state central committee, in which capacity he served for several years. Thus, in very different scenes and circumstances, he twice became the leader of his party in the state of his residence. Strong convictions, fervor of temperament, and ability as a political speaker and writer enabled him to attain his position quite independently of any aid from his more famous father. When he died, at the age of sixty-one, his remains were interred in Montgomery.
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On September 12, 1839, he married Elizabeth Priscilla, daughter of Thomas Abthorpe Cooper, the famous Irish tragedian and protege of William Godwin (John Bernard, Retrospections of America, 1887, p. 164).
(March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) He was the tenth President of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845 after briefly being the tenth Vice President (1841); he was elected to the latter office on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison.
(November 12, 1790 – September 10, 1842) She was the first wife of John Tyler, was First Lady of the United States from 1841 until her death in 1842.
(June 14, 1816 – December 29, 1889) She was the daughter-in-law of John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States.
