约翰·泰勒，国会，弗吉尼亚州(1790-1862)

约翰·泰勒(大卫·加德纳·泰勒的父亲)，弗吉尼亚州众议员和参议员，美国副总统和第10任总统;1790年3月29日出生于弗吉尼亚州查尔斯城县;就读于私立学校，1807年毕业于弗吉尼亚州威廉斯堡的威廉玛丽学院;学习法律;1809年获得律师资格，并在查尔斯市郡开始执业;1813年任某军事连队队长;1811-1816年，州议会代表;1816年担任国务委员会委员;当选为第十四届国会的民主党共和党人，填补约翰·克洛普顿去世造成的空缺;再次当选为第十五届和第十六届国会议员，任期为1816年12月17日至1821年3月3日; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1820 because of impaired health; member, State house of delegates 1823-1825; Governor of Virginia 1825-1827; elected as a Jacksonian (later Anti-Jacksonian) to the United States Senate in 1827; reelected in 1833 and served from March 4, 1827, to February 29, 1836, when he resigned; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Twenty-third Congress; chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Manufactures (Twenty-third Congress); member of the State constitutional convention in 1829 and 1830; member, State house of delegates 1839; elected Vice President of the United States on the Whig ticket with William Henry Harrison in 1840; was inaugurated March 4, 1841, and served until the death of President Harrison on April 4, 1841; took the oath of office as President of the United States on April 6, 1841, and served until March 3, 1845; did not seek reelection; delegate to and president of the peace convention held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; delegate to the Confederate Provisional Congress in 1861; elected to the House of Representatives of the Confederate Congress, but died in Richmond, Va., January 18, 1862, before the assembling of the Congress; interment in Hollywood Cemetery.

参考书目

美国国家传记；美国传记词典；梦露,丹。约翰·泰勒的共和党愿景．大学站:德克萨斯农工大学出版社，2003年。

资料来源:美国国会传记目录，1771年至今