The president with the most children was President John Tyler,
who served from 1841 to 1845. He had 15 children between the
years 1815 and 1860. He had them with two different wives. Eight
were with his first wife, Lettia Tyler, and the other seven were
with his second wife, Julia Gardiner. Some of the children
became doctors, veterans of the Civil War, and powerful
politicians. Other died at a young age, and some of them
vanished into history virtually unknown. However, all of them
were able to point to their father as one of the presidents of
the United States. Robert Tyler, the second child of the
president, was born in 1816 and became a successful lawyer and
politician. Later in his life, he became the Alabama Democratic
State Chairman, as well as the editor of the Montgomerey
Advisor. Another child who attempted to get into the field of
politics, law, and writing was John. He did not really succeed
at any of those professions; however, he is well known for
defending his father's honor in a Richmond newsp