#10 John Tyler- Accidental President
3/29/1790 – 1/18/1862 Party: Whig Timeline; 1841-1845 Tyler served as a Virginia state legislator, governor (1825-1827), U.S. representative (1816-1821), and U.S. senator (1827-1836) before his election as vice president (1841). He was put on the ticket to attract states’ rights Southerners to what was then a Whig coalition to defeat Van Buren’s re-election bid. Tyler was…