Vice President: None Secretary of State: Daniel Webster; Abel P. Upshur (from July 1843); John C. Calhoun (from April 1844)
Secretary of the Treasury: Thomas Ewing; Walter Forward (from September 1841); John C. Spencer (from March 1843);
George M. Bibb (from July 1844)
Secretary of War: John Bell; John C. Spencer (from October 1841); James M. Porter (from March 1843); William Wilkins (from February 1844)
Attorney General: John J. Crittenden; Hugh S. Legare (from September 1841); John Nelson (from July 1843)
Postmaster General: Francis Granger; Charles A. Wickliffe (from October 1841)
Secretary of the Navy: George E. Badger; Abel P. Upshur (from October 1841); David Henshaw (from July 1843); Thomas W. Gilmer (from February 1844); John Y. Mason (from March 1844)
Supreme Court Appointment: Samuel Nelson (1845)
State Admitted: Florida (1845)
Father: John Tyler (1747-1813)
Mother: Mary Marot Armistead Tyler (1761-1797)
First Wife: Letitia Christian (1790-1842)
First Marriage: March 29, 1813 Second Wife: Julia Gardiner (1820-1889) Second Marriage: June 26, 1844 Children: (by his first wife) Mary (1815-1848); Robert (1816-1877); John,
Jr. (1819-1896); Letitia (1821-1907); Elizabeth (1823-1850); Anne Contesse (1825); Alice (1827-1854); Tazewell (1830-1874); (by his second wife) David Gardiner (1846-1927); John Alexander (1848-1883); Julia (1849-1871); Lachlin (1851-1902); Lyon (1853-1935); Robert Fitzwalter (1856-1927); Pearl (1860-1947)
John Tyler’s cabinet underwent more changes in personnel than that for any other president. There were 22 different cabinet secretaries for six positions.
He was elected in 1862 to the Confederate House of Representatives, making him the only president to have held office in the Confederacy.
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