+which president has living grandsons
Both grandsons are in their 80’s and neither one likes their choices for President though neither will vote for Obama. One thinks Newt is “a big jerk” for his treatment of his wives in particular. John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States. ~ President Tyler’s gravestone epitaph. Can you believe that a president who was born in 1790 has two living grandsons? This was made possible because John Tyler’s second wife, Julia Gardner, was 30 years his junior and his son, Lyon, married Sue Ruffin, a scholar in her own right, 36 years Lyon’s junior. The widower president John Tyler, who was dubbed ‘His Accidency’ for the unusual manner in which he won the presidency, rose to fame from the ‘Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too’ campaign…Read more: Daily Mail. Lyon Tyler Sr, born 1853, remarried 1923 and had two sons, the now living grandsons. According to the Wikipedia article on John Tyler (1790—1862), Tyler had, by his second wife, Julia Gardiner Tyler (born 1820), a son, Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853-1935). It says that Harrison Ruffin Tyler, a son of Lyon, was born in 1928 (when Lyon was 75) and is still alive. It didn’t take long to learn that John Tyler’s second wife, Julia Gardiner Tyler, was born on Gardiner’s Island, and descends from the original Lion, hence her son’s (and grandson’s) name. The Gardiner family owns the island to this day. However, Wikipedia doesn’t say anything about a second living grandson. Krikorian links a photo of one Lyon Tyler identified as Tyler’s grandson, but the page gives no information about him. There’s no Wikipedia article on him. Message (optional): President John Tyler has two living grandsons. At the Corner, Mark Krikorian mentions the amazing news that two grandsons of President John Tyler, who was president from 1841 to 1845, are still alive. Krikorian tells us nothing more, but provides a some links. Forget, Abigail. Grandchildren of John Tyler, America's 10th President, Are Still Alive.. FoxNews.com. 27 January 2012. van Meter, Jan R. Tippecanoe and Tyler Too. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. ISBN 0-226-84968-6 (pp. Origins: John Tyler, who served as the tenth President of the United States from 1841 to 1845, does not rate highly in the pantheon of American presidents, typically ranking near the bottom of surveys that classify U.S. presidents according to their effectiveness in that position. New York magazine interviewed Harrison in early 2012 and reported that: Harrison Ruffin Tyler, one of those grandsons, spoke to us from Sherwood Forest Plantation, the historical Tyler family home in Virginia in which he resides.
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