He died 32 days into his first term, making his presidency the shortest in U.S. history. The oldest living president is Biden, who turned 82 on Nov. 20, 2024, just weeks after the election.

Like John Tyler before him, he served the bulk of a presidential term thanks to the Grim Reaper. After Zachary Taylor died, possibly from contaminated water and cherries in 1850, Fillmore saw out ...

When John Tyler assumed the presidency upon the death of William Henry Harrison, critics referred to him as “His Accidency.” At fifty-one, Tyler was the youngest man yet to become president. Tyler, ...

After he vetoed a tariff bill ... A committee headed by former president John Quincy Adams concluded that Tyler had misused the veto, but the impeachment resolution did not pass.

Prof. Leahy (Keuka) has written an impressive biography of an often overlooked, and very complex, American and his presidency. He gives us Tyler, good and bad, a man of his times and class, a good ...