Original sentence: , commonly known as Judge Tyler, was a friend and college roommate of Thomas Jefferson and served in the Virginia House of Delegates alongside Benjamin Harrison V, William's father.Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations helped form his economic views, and he acquired a lifelong love of William Shakespeare.After graduation, Tyler read the law with his father, then a state judge, and later with Edmund Randolph, former United States Attorney General.As of 1820, Tyler owned twenty-four enslaved persons at Woodburn, after having inherited thirteen enslaved persons from his father, although only eight were listed as engaged in agriculture in that census.At the age of twelve, he continued Tyler family tradition and entered the preparatory branch of the College of William and Mary.Bishop James Madison, the college's president and namesake of the future president, served as a second father and mentor to Tyler.By this time his father was Governor of Virginia (1808–1811), and the young Tyler started a legal practice in Richmond, the state capital.District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia at Richmond.Enslaved labor tended various crops, including wheat, corn and tobacco.His wife, Mary Marot (Armistead), was the daughter of prominent New Kent County plantation owner and one-term delegate, Robert Booth Armistead.In 1813, the year of his father's death, the younger Tyler purchased Woodburn plantation, where he lived until 1821.In the 1810 federal census, John Tyler (presumably his father) owned 8 slaves in Richmond, and possibly 5 slaves in adjoining Henrico County, and possibly 26 slaves in Charles City County.John Tyler was born on March 29, 1790 to a slave-owning Virginia family.Like his future running mate, William Henry Harrison, Tyler hailed from Charles City County, Virginia, and was descended from the First Families of Virginia.She died of a stroke in 1797 when her son John was seven years old.The Tyler family traced its lineage to English emigrants and 17th century colonial Williamsburg.The elder Tyler served four years as Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates before becoming a state court judge and later Governor of Virginia and a judge on the U.Tyler was admitted to the Virginia bar at the premature age of 19—the admitting judge neglected to ask his age.With two brothers and five sisters, Tyler was reared on Greenway Plantation, a  estate with a six-room manor house his father had built
Edited sentence: , commonly known as Judge Tyler, was a friend and college roommate of Thomas Jefferson and served in the Virginia House of Delegates alongside Benjamin Harrison V, father of William.After graduation Tyler read the law with his father, a state judge at the time, and later with Edmund Randolph, former United States Attorney General.Among the books that formed his economic views was Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, and he acquired a lifelong love of William Shakespeare.As of 1820, Tyler owned twenty-four enslaved persons at Woodburn, after having inherited thirteen enslaved persons from his father in 1813.At the age of twelve, he entered the preparatory branch of the elite College of William and Mary, continuing the Tyler family's tradition of attending the college.By this time his father was serving as Governor of Virginia (1808–1811), and the young Tyler started a practice in Richmond, the state capital.District Court at Richmond.He subsequently served as governor and as a judge on the U.His political opinions were shaped by Bishop James Madison, the college's president and namesake of the future president; the bishop served as a second father and mentor to Tyler.His wife, Mary Marot (Armistead), was the daughter of a prominent plantation owner, Robert Booth Armistead.In 1813 he purchased Woodburn plantation, where he lived until 1821.John Tyler was born on March 29, 1790 to a slave-owning Virginia family; like his future running mate, William Henry Harrison, Tyler hailed from Charles City County, Virginia, and was descended from aristocratic and politically entrenched families of English ancestry.She died of a stroke when her son John was seven years old in 1797.The Tyler family traced its lineage to colonial Williamsburg in the 17th century.The Tylers' forty slaves grew various crops, including wheat, corn and tobacco.The elder Tyler served four years as Speaker of the House of Delegates before becoming a state court judge.Tyler was erroneously admitted to the Virginia bar at the premature age of 19—the admitting judge neglected to ask his age.With two brothers and five sisters, Tyler was reared on Greenway Plantation, a  slave plantation with a six-room manor house his father had built