John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) 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 vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison. He served as a Virginia state legislator, governor, U.S. representative, and U.S. senator. He was put on the 1840 presidential ticket to attract states' rights Southerners to a Whig coalition to defeat Martin Van Buren's re-election bid. Tyler had been drawn into Virginia politics as a U.S. Tyler, a slaveowner from eastern Virginia, supported the existing system. For Tyler, any hope of completing the Texas plan before November (and with it, any hope of re-election) was instantly dashed. Historian Edward P. Crapol later wrote that 'Prior to the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln', the Princeton disaster 'unquestionably was the most severe and debilitating tragedy ever to confront a President of the United States'.
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