John Tyler, the 10th president, succeeded President William Henry Harrison, who died April 4, 1841, after a month in office. Tyler, president from 1841 to 1845, also had been a governor of ...

From William Henry Harrison’s shortest term to Barack Obama’s historic presidency, this timeline covers over 160 years of American leadership.

Mr. Tyler said his family tree also included Edmund Ruffin, a pro-slavery secessionist who fought in the Civil War, and William Henry Harrison — his grandfather’s predecessor as president and ...

President Tyler served from 1841 to 1845 following the death of President William Henry Harrison, to whom he had been vice president. He died in 1862 aged 71, decades before the birth of his last ...