American Presidents

A Site to Complement C-SPAN's 20th Anniversary Television Series, American Presidents: Life Portraits
March-December 1999
John Tyler
Inaugural Address

John Tyler

Vice President John Tyler became President upon William Henry Harrison's death. U.S. Circuit Court Judge William Cranch administered the oath to Mr. Tyler in the Indian Queen Hotel on April 6, 1841. Tyler was one of five Presidents to never be inaugurated.


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