USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -He served as a Virginia state legislator and governor, U.S. representative, and U.S. senator. Tyler was a regional Whig vice-presidential nominee in the 1836 presidential election; they lost. He was the sole nominee on the 1840 Whig presidential ticket as William Henry Harrison’s running mate.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tyler soon joined the states’ rights Southerners in Congress who banded with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and their newly formed Whig party opposing President Jackson. The Whigs nominated Tyler for Vice President in 1840, hoping for support from southern states’-righters who could not stomach Jacksonian Democracy.

Detailed explanation-3: -At the December 1839 Whig convention, Harrison became the party’s official nominee for president. To attract support in the South, former Virginia Senator John Tyler was named the Whig nominee for vice president.

Detailed explanation-4: -Whig nominee William Henry Harrison unseated Van Buren in the 1840 presidential election, but died just one month into his term.