What made Tyler famous?
John Tyler is known for being the first president to serve without being elected to office. He served nearly an entire term of four years after President William Henry Harrison died just 32 days after taking office. John grew up in a large family on a plantation in Virginia.
What were John Tyler’s goals?
Elected to Congress as a Democratic-Republican, the party founded in the early 1790s by Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and James Madison (1751-1836), Tyler favored states’ rights and a strict adherence to the U.S. Constitution, and opposed policies granting additional power to the federal government.
What was James Buchanan famous quotes?
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. What is right and what is practicable are two different things. If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.
What was Zachary Taylor’s famous quote?
“Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!” “I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.” “My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.”