John Tyler

The city of Tyler, Texas is named for him. Edward Norton also played a young Nelson Rockefeller in 2002 film Frida. Tyler is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. Rockefeller's command to destroy Diego Rivera's controversial mural Man at the Crossroads is one of the films major climactic events. He was 71 years and 295 days old. A young Nelson Rockefeller was depicted in the 1999 period film Cradle Will Rock (played by John Cusack). White). Nelson Rockefeller was worth approximately $1 billion at the time of his death.

Having served in the provisional Confederate Congress in 1861, he was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives but died of bronchitis and bilious fever before he could take office, which could mean he is the only American president to die on foreign soil, depending on if one considers the CSA foreign or not (see Texas v. As of 2004, Forbes estimates that the family fortune could be as much as $9 billion. When the Senate rejected his plan, Tyler urged Virginia's immediate secession. The Rockefeller family is one of the most famous blue-blooded clans in America. The convention sought a compromise to avoid civil war, while the Confederate Constitution was being drawn up at the Montgomery Convention. However there is a good deal of rumour and speculation about all the details of what happened; see the Megan Marshak article for a full discussion of this. In February 1861, Tyler re-entered public life to sponsor and chair the Washington Peace Convention. It is officially recorded that this occurred during sexual intercourse with his mistress and staff member Megan Marshak.

He was himself a slaveowner his entire life. On January 26, 1979 Rockefeller suffered a heart attack and died. Tyler had long been an advocate of states' rights, believing that the question of a state's "free" or "slave" status ought to be decided at the state level, with no input from the federal government. His 1933 decision to purchase and then destroy Diego Rivera's mural at Rockefeller Center, which included a portrait of Lenin, is still controversial. Tyler retired to a plantation named "Walnut Grove" he had bought in Virginia, renaming it "Sherwood Forest" to signify that he had been "outlawed" by the Whig party, and withdrew from electoral politics, though his advice continued to be sought by states-rights Democrats. The Neuberger Museum, designed by Philip Johnson, hosted several paintings collected by Neuberger and helped popularize several artists. Tyler appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States:. While he was overseeing construction of the State University of New York system, he agreed with his lifelong friend Roy Neuberger to build a museum on the campus of SUNY Purchase College.

. He continued his mother's work at the Museum of Modern Art and turned the basement of his Kykuit mansion into a first-class museum. Polk. Rockefeller was a great collector of modern art. The consequences of this act, which triggered war with Mexico, Tyler left to his successor, James K. Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977. Tyler's last act in office was perhaps the most significant: he signed the bill annexing Texas, which had formerly been part of Mexico, thus extending the territory of slave-holding states and unbalancing the Missouri Compromise. When questioned by an ABC reporter as to why he didn't join in with Rockefeller, Dole replied "I have trouble with my right arm," reminding them of his injury in World War II.

Tyler and Gardiner were married not long afterwards in New York City, on June 26, 1844. Senator Robert Dole, who would be the Republican nominee to succeed Rockefeller in the 1976 election, was on hand at the speech. Her father was also killed during the explosion. A group of hippies started to heckle him, which obviously irritated him, causing him to retaliate by giving the group the finger, in a widely circulated photo. Tyler met his second wife, Julia Gardiner, during the ceremony. Perhaps the most memorable moment of Rockefeller's Vice Presidency occurred during a public speech at Broome County Airport in Binghamton, New York. Upshur, the Secretary of State. Less than a year later however, (on November 3, 1975), he notified President Ford that he would not seek election to the Vice Presidency in 1976, saying that he "didn't come down (to Washington) to get caught up in party squabbles which only make it more difficult for the President in a very difficult time...".

During a ceremonial cruise down the Potomac River on February 28, 1844, a main gun of the USS Princeton blew up during a demonstration firing, instantly killing Thomas Gilmer, the Secretary of the Navy, and Abel P. He became the 2nd Vice President to be appointed to the position under the 25th Amendment — the first being Ford himself. The last year of Tyler's presidency was marred by a freak accident that killed two of his Cabinet members. Rockefeller underwent a lengthy series of Congressional hearings but ultimately was confirmed, beginning his service on December 19, 1974. My reliance on the virtue, intelligence and patriotism of her citizens, is great and abiding, and I will not doubt but that a spirit of conciliation will prevail over rash counsels, that all actual grievances will be promptly redressed by the existing Government, and that another bright example will be added to the many already prevailing among the North American Republics, of change without revolution and a redress of grievances without force or violence.". Currently, Rockefeller is the last governor to have served as Vice President. None of them will be willing to set an example, in the bosom of this Union, of such frightful disorder, such needless convulsions of society, such danger to life, liberty and property, and likely to bring so much discredit on the character of popular governments. Following the resignation of President Richard Nixon, successor Gerald Ford nominated Rockefeller to serve as the 41st Vice President of the United States.

No portion of her people will be willing to drench her fair fields with the blood of their own brethren, in order to obtain a redress of grievances which their constituted authorities cannot, for any length of time, resist, if properly appealed to by the popular voice. Some analysts speculated that his appointment to the vice presidency by Gerald Ford was calculated to forestall a Rockefeller presidential campaign in 1976. "The people of the State of Rhode Island have been too long distinguished for their love of order and of regular government, to rush into revolution, in order to obtain a redress of grievances, real or supposed, which a government under which their fathers lived in peace, would not in due season redress. Rockefeller left office as governor in 1973 in what was rumored at the time to be a move toward a fourth bid for the presidency; however this never materialized. He ended his published letter:. Rockefeller lost again to Nixon in 1968. history where the question had arisen, according to Tyler, who was overlooking Shays' Rebellion. After polls predicted Rockefeller would win the California primary, he lost by a slim margin and dropped out of the race, endorsing Goldwater (but more hesitantly than he had previously supported Nixon).

His letter declined to offer an opinion on the internal affairs of Rhode Island: "They are questions of municipal regulation, the adjustment of which belongs exclusively to the people of Rhode Island." It was the first occasion in U.S. However, Rockefeller's divorce and quick remarriage to a woman (who had until then been married to someone else) twenty years his junior turned many people off. Tyler's later career may be seen in the light of his actions at this turn of events. Rockefeller was considered the front-runner for the 1964 campaign against the more conservative Barry Goldwater of Arizona (Nixon had declined to run after losing to Pat Brown in the 1962 California gubernatorial election). "I freely confess that I should experience great reluctance in employing the military power of Government against any portion of the people; but however painful the duty I have to assure your Excellency, that if resistance is made to the execution of the laws of Rhode-Island, by such force as the civil peace shall be unable to overcome, it will be the duty of this Government to enforce the Constitutional guarantee-- a guarantee given and adopted mutually by all the original States, of which Rhode-Island was one.". His bid in 1960 was ended early when then-Vice President Richard Nixon surged ahead in the polls; after quitting the campaign Rockefeller backed Nixon enthusiastically, and concentrated his efforts on introducing more moderate stances into Nixon's platform. Tyler was of the opinion that the 'lawless assemblages' were dispersing, and expressed his confidence in a 'temper of conciliation as well as of energy and decision:'. Rockefeller's dream was the presidency; he spent millions in attempts in 1960, 1964, and 1968.

In May 1842, when the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island came to a head, Tyler declined to use Federal troops to suppress the rioting adherents of a new state constitution, which extended Rhode Island's restricted franchise. Under the New York MTA, toll revenue collected from the bridges and tunnels, which had previously been used to build more bridges, tunnels, and highways, were shifted to support public transport operations. Calhoun as Secretary of State, to 'reform' the Democrats, the gravitational swing of the Whigs to identity with 'the North' and the Democrats as the party of 'the South,' led the way to the sectional party politics of the next decade. In taking over control of the Triborough authority, Rockefeller overcame Robert Moses, who controlled several of New York state's public infrastructure authorities. For two years Tyler struggled with the Whigs, but when he took John C. He created the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1965, which merged the New York City subway system with the publicly-owned Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and the Long Island Rail Road and Metro North Railroad, which were purchased by the state from private owners. The one exception was Daniel Webster, Secretary of State, who remained to finalize the Webster-Ashburton Treaty in 1842, demonstrating his independence from Clay. Rockefeller also reformed the governance of New York City's transportation system.

Tyler was officially expelled from the Whig Party in 1841, a few months after taking office, and the entire cabinet he had inherited from Harrison resigned in September. This occurred on top of a state economy that was in significant decline. Tyler shocked Congressional Whigs by vetoing virtually the entire Whig agenda, twice vetoing Clay's legislation for a national banking act following the Panic of 1837 and leaving the government deadlocked. The state budget went from US$2.04 billion in 1959-60 (Rockefeller's first year in office) to US$8.8 billion in 1973-74 (at the end of Rockefeller's time in office). Harrison had been expected to adhere closely to Whig Party policies and work closely with Whig leaders, particularly Henry Clay. Public-benefit authorities (some 230 of them, like UDC, were brought into existence by Rockefeller) were often used to issue bonds in order to avoid the requirement of a vote of the people for the issuance of a bond; such authority-issued bonds bore higher interest than if they had been issued directly by the state. Further, Tyler quickly found himself at odds with his former political supporters. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza) project—the most expensive project that had ever been undertaken by any US state government), his generous pension programs for many public workers in the state (firefighers, many police officers, sanitation workers, and corrections officers), and highest-in-the-nation minimum wage that he was able to push through the legislature (or carry out through some existing public-benefit authority such as the UDC) greatly drove up costs and debt in the state.

His presidency was rarely taken seriously in his time; he was usually referred to as the "Acting President" or "His Accidency" by opponents. Rockefeller's massive construction programs (not just the aforementioned, but others such as the US$2 billion Albany South Mall (later renamed the Nelson A. His youngest child, Pearl, died 100 years, 1 week, and 6 days after the death of his eldest daughter, Mary. (UDC is now called the Empire State Development Corporation, which forms a unit, along with the formerly independent Job Development Authority, of Empire State Development.). Altogether Tyler was the father of 15 children, more than any other President before or after him. To create more low-income housing, Rockefeller created the unprecedented-in-its-power New York State Urban Development Corporation (UDC), which could override local zoning, condemn property, and create creative financing schemes to carry out desired development. They had seven children:. He also created many major highways (such as the Long Island, the Southern Tier, the Adirondack, and Interstate 81) which vastly improved road transportation in New York State.

He was the first President to marry while in office. He was the driving force in turning the State University of New York into the largest system of public higher education in the United States. He then married Julia Gardiner on June 26, 1844. Rockefeller engaged in massive building endeavors that left a profound mark on New York State. His daughter-in-law Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper served as First Lady for this period. Compared to other Republicans, Rockefeller was a liberal, and Republicans who hold views similar to his are often referred to as "Rockefeller Republicans". Tyler spent two years as a widower. Despite this, he was still considered one of the leaders of the moderate wing of the Republican Party of the United States, and is hailed as an example of one of the chief figures of the "1960s and 1970s Republican" movement.

Letitia served as First Lady of the United States but died on September 10, 1842. As governor of New York, he successfully secured the passage of extremely strict laws against the possession and/or sale of drugs; these laws — which became known as the "Rockefeller drug laws" — took effect in 1973 and are still on the books, and rank among the toughest in the United States: The mere possession of four ounces or more of such drugs as heroin and cocaine — or the sale of two ounces or more of the same substances — carries the same penalties as those imposed for second-degree murder. They had eight children:. He served as governor of New York from 1959 to 1973 (elected to four terms, he served three and a half). Tyler married twice, firstly to Letitia Christian on March 29, 1813. Rockefeller left federal service in 1956 to concentrate on New York state politics, where he served in various capacities before being elected governor (winning with a plurality of over 600,000 in a year mostly dominated by state Democrats). Congress agreed with Tyler that he was President and not merely Acting President, and as the Constitution was not explicit on that aspect of succession (until the 1967 ratification of the 25th Amendment), both the House and Senate passed resolutions recognizing Tyler as President. The election of fellow-Republican Dwight Eisenhower to the presidency saw Rockefeller appointed first as chair of the President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization and later as an undersecretary in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

The Cabinet and U.S. After the war he headed the International Development Advisory Board, part of Truman's Point Four Program. He acceded to the Presidency upon the death of President Harrison on April 4, 1841, and took the Presidential oath of office as specified by the Constitution on April 6. He became an Assistant Secretary of State during World War II, where he ran the propaganda operation for Central and South America. Tyler was the first Vice President to assume the Presidency in this manner. Rockefeller worked for a time in several family-run businesses and philanthropies before entering public service. He assumed the presidency upon Harrison's death a month into his term. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1930, where he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity and the Casque & Gauntlet Society.

Their campaign slogans of "Log Cabins and Hard Cider" and "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" are among the most famous in American politics. Nelson Rockefeller was born on the same day of the year as his paternal grandfather, and from childhood was the leader of the five Rockefeller brothers, John, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop, and David. Drawn into the newly-organized Whig Party, Tyler was elected Vice President in 1840 as running mate to William Henry Harrison. He was also the brother of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas and the uncle of Governor and Senator John Davison Rockefeller, IV of West Virginia. Senator, Tyler, who had begun as a strict state-rights Democrat, grew increasingly alienated from the Jacksonian Democrats, especially by Jackson's aggressive handling of the South Carolina nullification issue. Aldrich of Rhode Island, for whom he was named. During his time as U.S. Rockefeller and Senator Nelson W.

He was educated at the College of William and Mary and went on to study law with his father, who became Governor of Virginia (1808-1811), and followed his father as governor (1825-1827) after a stint in the United States House of Representatives. and the grandson of oil tycoon John D. John Tyler was born the son of John Tyler (1747-1813) and Mary Armistead. Rockefeller, Jr. . A member of the prominent Rockefeller family, he was the son of John D. He was the second President born after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and the first to assume the office of President following the death of his predecessor. "Rocky," as he was called, was born in Bar Harbor, Maine.

John Tyler (March 29, 1790 - January 18, 1862), of Virginia, was the tenth (1841) Vice President of the United States, and the tenth (1841-1845) President of the United States. . presidential election, 1840. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979) was a Governor of New York and the 41st Vice President of the United States of America from December 19, 1974 to January 20, 1977. U.S. Dorr Rebellion.

Florida – March 3, 1845. Samuel Nelson - 1845. Pearl Tyler (June 20, 1860 - June 30, 1947). Robert Fitzwalter Tyler (March 12, 1856 - December 31, 1927).

Lyon Gardiner Tyler (August 24, 1853 - February 12, 1935). Lachlan Tyler (December 2, 1851 - January 26, 1902). Julia Gardiner Tyler (December 25, 1849 - May 8, 1871). John Alexander Tyler (April 7, 1848 - September 1, 1883).

David Gardiner Tyler (July 12, 1846 - September 5, 1927). Tazewell Tyler (December 6, 1830 - January 8, 1874). Alice Tyler (March 23, 1827 - June 8, 1854). Anne Contesse Tyler (April 5, 1825 - July, 1825).

Elizabeth Tyler (July 11, 1823 - June 1, 1850). Letitia Christian Tyler (May 11, 1821 - December 28, 1907). John Tyler (April 17, 1819 - January 26, 1896). He was married to Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper who served as First Lady of the United States.

Robert Tyler (September 9, 1816 - December 3, 1877). Mary Tyler (April 15, 1815 - June 17, 1847).