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JOHN TYLER, second son of Judge John Tyler, governor of Virginia from 1808 to 1811, and Mary Armistead, was born at Greenway, Charles City County, Va., March 29, 1790. He was graduated at William and Mary College in 1807. At college he showed a strong interest in ancient history; was also fond of poetry and music, and was a skillful performer on the violin. In 1809 he was admitted to the bar, and had already begun to obtain a good practice when he was elected to the legislature. Took his seat in that body in December, 1811. Was here a firm supporter of Mr. Madison's. | Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents A 1 Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents A The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Tyler by Compiled by James D. Richardson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Tyler Section 2 of 3 of Volume 4 John Tyler Author Compiled by James D. Richardson Release Date May 28 2004 EBook 12464 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS TYLER Produced by Juliet Sutherland David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. A COMPILATION OF THE MESSAGES AND PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS BY JAMES D. RICHARDSON John Tyler April 4 1841 to March 4 1845 John Tyler JOHN TYLER second son of Judge John Tyler governor of Virginia from 1808 to 1811 and Mary Armistead was born at Greenway Charles City County Va. March 29 1790. He was graduated at William and Mary College in 1807. At college he showed a strong interest in ancient history was also fond of poetry and music and was a skillful performer on the violin. In 1809 he was admitted to the bar and had already begun to obtain a good practice when he was elected to the legislature. Took his seat in that body in December 1811. Was here a firm supporter of Mr. Madison s Administration and the war with Great Britain which soon followed afforded him an opportunity to become conspicuous as a forcible and persuasive orator. March 29 1813 he married Letitia daughter of Robert Christian and a few weeks afterwards was called into the field at the head of a company of militia to take part in the defense of Richmond threatened by the British. This military service lasted but a month.