John Tyler
When President William Henry Harrison passed away, John Tyler became the United States’ 10th president, serving from 1841 to 1845, and the first ever to take over a former president who had died while in office, which means he became the first president that was not elected. In the debate on slavery, Tyler was in favor of giving every state the right to decide on their own regarding the matter, like any other matters, and because he made some enemies in Congress when he refused to be some “passive” replacement president, he earned the moniker “His Accidency.” The attempted impeachment he experienced was the first ever in American history, despite the fact that it fell through. As for international matters, he negotiated treaties with China and Britain and as for his personal life, he went down in history as the president who had the most number of children (he had 15).
John Tyler
Franklin Pierce
Unfortunately the 14th president of the United States didn’t get a lot of public love. He was an alcoholic and was sternly against the abolitionist movement. In his words, it was “a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation”. The Democratic president signed the Kansas-Nebraska act, effectively enabling residents of certain territories to decide their own legal status on slavery.
Franklin Pierce
