John Tyler (Potatoman5849)

John Tyler was the tenth president of the United States from 1841 to 1845 after briefly serving as the tenth vice president in 1841. he was elected to the latter office on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison. Tyler ascended to the presidency after Harrison's death in April 1841, only a month after the start of the new administration. He was a stalwart supporter and advocate of states' rights, and as president he adopted nationalist policies only when they did not infringe on the powers of the states. His unexpected rise to the presidency, with the resulting threat to the presidential ambitions of Henry Clay and other politicians, left him estranged from both major political parties. He held an advent disdain for democracy using his Presidency to veto all bill's passed by congress even legislation on critical subject's like the military federal budget and infrastructure.

This blatant disregard for Congress forced the Whigs to adopt articles of impeachment against President Tyler; however, it did not pass in the senate. When he left office in 1845 he retired to his home in Virginia, but when the State of Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861, he turned against his country to support the Confederacy.

He eventually was elected to become Speaker of the house of representatives in the Confederate Government where he remained until the death of confederate President Alexander H. Stephens 3 days later he was Sworn in as the 3rd President of the Confederate States of America until he signed the "surrender of the confederacy" in 1865 where he was arrested on March 7th.

After the war Confederate President Jefferson Davis was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson, however, John Tyler was not because he was labeled an ultimate traitor to the United States and was sentenced to life in Prison where he would later die alone and scared.