John Tyler: The Most Hated President of the 19th Century

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  • @Biographics
    @Biographics  Год назад +35

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  • @badluck5647
    @badluck5647 Год назад +403

    How many cameos is *Henry Clay* is going to get on Biographics before he gets his own episode?

    • @ridureyu
      @ridureyu Год назад +34

      Henry Clay is still alive, so it’s hard to write a full biography until a hero plunges a magic sword into his soul container.

    • @badluck5647
      @badluck5647 Год назад +18

      @@ridureyu You must be thinking of a different Henry Clay as the congressman has been dead for over a century.

    • @cameroncrisamore2871
      @cameroncrisamore2871 Год назад +21

      @@badluck5647r/whoooosh

    • @ridureyu
      @ridureyu Год назад +11

      @@badluck5647 no, undead. That’s why he put his soul into a magical container that can only be destroyed with a magical sword.

    • @badluck5647
      @badluck5647 Год назад +5

      @@ridureyu I thought you were being metaphoric.
      Either way, you are an odd one.

  • @diegopons4622
    @diegopons4622 Год назад +217

    It's incredible that one of John Tyler's grandchildren is still alive today. And I think a second one barely died in 2019.

    • @mistervacation23
      @mistervacation23 Год назад +36

      How do you barely die?

    • @diegopons4622
      @diegopons4622 Год назад +41

      @@mistervacation23 Street slang: barely died = a short time ago.

    • @mistervacation23
      @mistervacation23 Год назад +19

      @@diegopons4622 i got to get out more

    • @diegopons4622
      @diegopons4622 Год назад +21

      @@mistervacation23 We all have to get out more. Fresh air is good.

    • @atlasking6110
      @atlasking6110 Год назад

      Barely died?

  • @michaelw6277
    @michaelw6277 Год назад +365

    Andrew Johnson would like to have a word with you. He botched reconstruction so bad we’re still dealing with the problems it caused.

    • @mwi3865
      @mwi3865 Год назад +40

      I would say that it had been largely healed by the time of the first Roosevelt but Wilson set it on fire.

    • @susanr1903
      @susanr1903 Год назад +10

      No we're not

    • @michaelw6277
      @michaelw6277 Год назад +35

      @@susanr1903 yes we are

    • @susanr1903
      @susanr1903 Год назад +3

      @@michaelw6277 how do you think we are ....???

    • @michaelw6277
      @michaelw6277 Год назад

      @@susanr1903 there have been lynchings of black people within my lifetime, in the very recent past there were black schools and white schools, etc. You're going to tell me that systemic racism is no longer a problem?

  • @AfroNerd-cv1dl
    @AfroNerd-cv1dl Год назад +30

    I grew up in Richmond Virginia, I remember I used to be so scared of the graveyard where his tall monumental gravestone with Tower over everyone else. There were a few times he had to drive through there at night, always wondered what made Mr John Tyler so special. In the end, it was his lack of commitment to a single idea, and holding on to that which was already beginning to wither away. But, at the end of the day he lived a life worth learning about. I guess I can say, that's all that really matters at the end.

  • @andrewroby6113
    @andrewroby6113 Год назад +180

    Franklin Pierce was another obscure and generally disliked President, although a tragic figure to boot. You should do a video on him when you get the chance. Great work as always :)

    • @York22
      @York22 Год назад +7

      I’m sure he will eventually cover him

    • @eddieparker945
      @eddieparker945 Год назад +10

      Franklin Pierce was the most tragic public figures in U.S. history. I doubt anyone would do story about him being the main person to talk about. He made his situation worse after his presidency!! He had No guts or spine on moral issues & he droke himself to the Death. A sad 😢 desolate after the death of his wife yrs earlier, who herself was Thee most reluctant 1st ladies in US History

    • @jay-1800
      @jay-1800 Год назад +4

      @@eddieparker945 after his presidency hecklers would sometimes show up to his house

    • @jacob4920
      @jacob4920 Год назад +4

      I had long forgotten that Franklin Pierce even WAS a president!... Talk about leaving a "lasting legacy..."

    • @andrewroby6113
      @andrewroby6113 Год назад +3

      @@eddieparker945 Also their only surviving child (a son) died in a horrific train accident just after he was elected president (but before he was inaugurate) which the President-elect and first lady were also in but survived, though they had to see what happened to their son. And then iirc she blamed him and his ambition for their son's death, which increased his depression and drinking.

  • @k9feline2
    @k9feline2 Год назад +28

    Well, as long as he was President, Tyler could take comfort in knowing that he was one of the Top 10 Presidents in US History.

  • @nancyshimer4464
    @nancyshimer4464 Год назад +76

    As a 70-year-old American, I can honestly say that I've been learning more from your bios of American presidents than I ever did in school. Great job!

    • @SophieBird07
      @SophieBird07 Год назад +2

      Me to!

    • @blackmandoingblackthings3813
      @blackmandoingblackthings3813 Год назад

      Pay attention

    • @SophieBird07
      @SophieBird07 Год назад +3

      @@blackmandoingblackthings3813 I do, but public school is not that conducive to education.

    • @prestonjones1653
      @prestonjones1653 Год назад

      ​@SophieBird07
      In my school we basically just stopped at the civil war every year and then started over again the next year with the colonial era.
      No wonder 20% of Americans don't know what the Holocaust is, we weren't even taught there was a first world war let alone two of them.

    • @Shinzon23
      @Shinzon23 9 месяцев назад

      Rigging endorsement of the american education system everyone

  • @davidseymour6447
    @davidseymour6447 Год назад +16

    Tyler was also unpopular with his neighbors in Virginia after he left the presidency. He was "elected" overseer of roads in the county around his plantation. The position was seen as demeaning, and it was intended as an insult, but he took it seriously and frequently assigned various other planters road repair work to do, and they would have to send several slaves to do the work.

  • @traydevon
    @traydevon Год назад +98

    John Tyler has a living grandson. His other grandson just died a few years ago.

    • @GregH25
      @GregH25 Год назад +4

      Considering we’re taking about the 1800’s I assume there is quite a few greats in front of that Grandson

    • @salvadoracosta4510
      @salvadoracosta4510 Год назад +37

      No it’s his actual grandson

    • @JoanZee
      @JoanZee Год назад +26

      @@GregH25 you’d think but nope lol. Multiple generations marrying and conceiving a child in very old age.

    • @alexispartee4086
      @alexispartee4086 Год назад +14

      Yeah he remarried late in life to a young wife. It’s definitely his grandson

    • @snapdragon6601
      @snapdragon6601 Год назад +2

      That just what I was gonna ask too...if it was great-grandson or grandson. That's amazing. He must be up there in years..🙂

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Год назад +53

    1:45 - Chapter 1 - Virginia gentleman
    4:45 - Chapter 2 - Ideological purity
    7:10 - Mid roll ads
    8:40 - Chapter 3 - His accidency
    11:45 - Chapter 4 - President without a party
    14:30 - Chapter 5 - Lone star fever
    17:55 - Chapter 6 - The traitor president

  • @areiaaphrodite
    @areiaaphrodite Год назад +29

    Oh good! I was hoping for another Biographics President video! Thanks Simon!

    • @ernestov1777
      @ernestov1777 Год назад

      I really want a video about William Westmoreland, the general that lost Vietnam

  • @ronque23
    @ronque23 Год назад +25

    I recalled there was a city in Texas named Tyler and so I googled after the video. Sure enough it’s named after this guy. I suppose it’s the least Texas could do for him.

    • @ulfricstormcloak412
      @ulfricstormcloak412 Год назад +1

      I'm from and live in Tyler! It's awkward sometimes because they just changed the high schools' names away from him and Robert E Lee, but keep the name for the city. It's weird telling people where I'm from because they pretty much only know Dallas, Houston, etc

    • @larryhovekamp4318
      @larryhovekamp4318 Год назад

      Still there are few places in the US named after Tyler. Maybe not to be confused by the more esteemed Zachary Taylor who also resided in the White House and died prematurely? Plenty of Taylor counties and towns named after him but not for Tyler.

  • @t.c.thompson2359
    @t.c.thompson2359 Год назад +49

    You should do a video on Sam Houston, especially about how he pretty much called the Confederacy a bunch of morons that had really underestimated the people of the North, whom Southerners had always looked down on

    • @scottyp1303
      @scottyp1303 Год назад

      Sam Houston was an illegal immigrant

    • @robertortiz-wilson1588
      @robertortiz-wilson1588 Год назад +2

      A great man indeed!

    • @daleanderson7794
      @daleanderson7794 Год назад

      @MrRdparri and here we are again the Republicans of Texas kicking around succession.

    • @johncox2865
      @johncox2865 Год назад +1

      We still do🤣

    • @prestonjones1653
      @prestonjones1653 Год назад +1

      ​​@@MrRdparri
      If only he had lived a few more years, the sheer cascading amounts of smugness that he could have fueled him after the CSA lost.

  • @IS34PreteristForce
    @IS34PreteristForce Год назад +9

    It’s amazing that two of John Tyler’s grandsons (Yes, grandsons!) were still alive in 2020.

  • @spankyspork5808
    @spankyspork5808 Год назад +15

    You are one of my favorite things about RUclips. You easily have the best presidential content on the entire platform - that is a legitimate statement - and it is greatly appreciated. Just wanted to say thank you.

    • @jonathanhill6064
      @jonathanhill6064 Год назад +2

      seconded

    • @durasaxon5131
      @durasaxon5131 Год назад +1

      So...
      A very sound and wise strategic political move.
      Edging for
      Secretary of State or War?
      I've seen others like you!
      Aiming even higher eventually?
      Yessss!

  • @devansmith691
    @devansmith691 Год назад +14

    9:54 "Between 1800 and 1968, only one man who had previously served as Vice President had been elected in his own right."
    - Thomas Jefferson - VP to Adams Sr. - elected 1800
    - Martin Van Buren - VP to Jackson - elected 1836

    • @sydhenderson6753
      @sydhenderson6753 Год назад +4

      He was excluding 1800 and 1968 (Nixon being the latter.) Also the presidents who had succeeded on the death of a former president.

    • @adameckard4591
      @adameckard4591 Год назад +2

      You left out LBJ.

    • @leviathanmg
      @leviathanmg Год назад +1

      @@sydhenderson6753 Bingo. Well done.

    • @alicemoore2036
      @alicemoore2036 Год назад +1

      George HW Bush

    • @adameckard4591
      @adameckard4591 Год назад +1

      @@alicemoore2036 we are talking the 19th century.

  • @ThatGUY666666
    @ThatGUY666666 Год назад +81

    Love how Simon opened with how contentious the debate over who was the "best President" and who was the "worst President" is since I personally just started a personal project of studying the actual presidencies to reach my own conclusions on those matters. If I was not limiting to my analysis to what they did during their presidencies specifically, John Tyler I feel would be an easy winner for the title of the worst President in our nation's history. But since I do have that as part of my methodology, I am inclined to think there will be at least half a dozen men I will be ranking lower, still I do not expect him to rank very high.
    Wonderful work as always.

    • @jacksonlynch1731
      @jacksonlynch1731 Год назад +2

      Buchanan, Wilson, Hoover, for sure. And probably Jackson and Harding as well.

    • @d0nn13m0n0
      @d0nn13m0n0 Год назад +18

      The worst president in history is either Woodrow Wilson or Woodrow Wilson. Take your pick

    • @brendanbrown3100
      @brendanbrown3100 Год назад +3

      @@d0nn13m0n0 I’ll pick Wilson.

    • @chitlitlah
      @chitlitlah Год назад +4

      @@brendanbrown3100 Woodrow was much worse.

    • @Departmentofnaturalresources
      @Departmentofnaturalresources Год назад +4

      If it’s about the man not just what they did in office Hoover goes right up the list his humanitarian efforts are sadly overshadowed by his ineffective leadership with the depression

  • @louisvillenick3248
    @louisvillenick3248 Год назад +129

    Idk. James Buchanan was from the 19th century and he was always considered the worst one we ever had.

    • @SilverFang2789
      @SilverFang2789 Год назад

      So was Andrew Johnson and he basically set up the stage for the birth of the Klu Klux Klan

    • @MatthewChenault
      @MatthewChenault Год назад +10

      Lincoln was objectively worse. Where Van Buren did nothing during the secession crisis, Abraham Lincoln made the situation _worse_ and then came out the other end as America’s first Caesar.

    • @Talisguy
      @Talisguy Год назад +85

      @@MatthewChenault Nonsense.

    • @ebenezerkittoe9115
      @ebenezerkittoe9115 Год назад +35

      The 21st century has unseated him by producing the worst of all time. Donald Trump

    • @jayplay8869
      @jayplay8869 Год назад +7

      Did he pull a Jan 6 tho…

  • @PresidentAutumn
    @PresidentAutumn Год назад +4

    Look, I’m glad y’all are doing the lesser known presidents, but it’s almost criminal that Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson doesn’t have a video yet.

  • @rbrinks5
    @rbrinks5 Год назад +9

    A living grandchild in 2023 is truly unbelievable

  • @jackiegillyard758
    @jackiegillyard758 Год назад +7

    👏👏👏 You got it Simone. I knew Harrison Tyler's wife. They live where I worked. He has dementia now, but was/is proud of his grandfather.

  • @labrd41
    @labrd41 Год назад +4

    Biden: "Hold my beer".

    • @robertcampbell6349
      @robertcampbell6349 Год назад +3

      "Hold my ice cream cone, and Hunter's crack pipe."

    • @WilliamMcDougald-pm3fq
      @WilliamMcDougald-pm3fq 2 месяца назад

      "Hold my beer...oops too late!"

    • @ayethegoat
      @ayethegoat Месяц назад +2

      Biden is way better than your daddy Trump 😂 He actually got shi done

    • @ChrisF-jt1qf
      @ChrisF-jt1qf 24 дня назад

      ​@@ayethegoatRight at the edge of WW3

    • @ayethegoat
      @ayethegoat 24 дня назад

      @@ChrisF-jt1qf we’ve been there since 2000 buddy but keep believing propaganda

  • @adavis1436
    @adavis1436 Год назад +9

    Fun fact: Henry Clay is an ancestor of mine!
    Well, it was a fun fact for me. 🙂

  • @stevenleslie8557
    @stevenleslie8557 Год назад +52

    The problem with ranking US presidents is it turns into an exercise in partisanship, especially later Presidents.
    I remember one ranking list that had Obama at number one best President, yet he was only less than a year into his first term. That he was even included in this list at that time is silly.

    • @jaketheberge1970
      @jaketheberge1970 Год назад +23

      You really can't judge a president until 5 to ten years later bare minimum. Some presidents it takes decades to notice.

    • @troybaxter
      @troybaxter Год назад +9

      @@jaketheberge1970 I’d argue not even then. I think now we can judge Bush, but even today I would say we can’t rank Obama.

    • @pmp2559
      @pmp2559 Год назад

      The worst president of all time for me is biden

    • @mebsrea
      @mebsrea Год назад

      @@troybaxter Some Presidents are more easily judged than others. Trump cemented his status as the worst President in US history two weeks before his term ended by trying to violently overthrow American democracy. Others take longer to evaluate, and their legacies change to some extent based on the concerns of subsequent generations. Obama’s failure to adequately recognize and work to forestall Russian malevolence didn’t seem to have serious consequences (unless you’re Syrian) until last year, but in hindsight gave an impression of an American lack of resolve that Putin saw as a green light for future aggression.

    • @billybob5337
      @billybob5337 Год назад +1

      @@troybaxter Bush is still too early. Hes still too close to everyone living now. Obama and Trump cant properly be ranked because you have half of the country ranking both as one of the better ones, and half of the country ranking both of them as one of the worst. Its totally enflamed in partisanship and what your politics are. I am ok with people putting Obama or Trump where they want........but i simply refuse to compromise with anyone on Biden. Theres literally no President in history that did anything remotely comparable to leaving 80 billion in military equipment to the Taliban. I know all 45 Presidents including their terms......and Biden is the first time that i can easily and confidently rate someone worse than Pierce, Buchanan, and Harding. A level of incompetenance thats staggering

  • @theawesomeman9821
    @theawesomeman9821 Год назад +17

    I know most of the channel's viewers are Americans but I think it would be cool to cover Head of States from other countries.
    For Germany I suggest covering; Angela Merkal (Germany's longest reigning Chancellor), the first chancellor during the Waimer era, and the chancellor who unified East and West Germany.
    For Britain I suggest covering; Sunek (Britain's first Indian Prime Minister), Boris Johnson (UK's first populist PM), Willian Pitt (UK's leader during the Seven Years War), and Disraeli (UK's first Jewish PM).
    For Canada I suggest covering: Canada's first French PM and Justin Trudeau (Canada's current PM)

    • @jeffmihelic6852
      @jeffmihelic6852 Год назад +3

      Good idea, we get so much info on our leaders in school, learning about other leaders would be great.

    • @Elora445
      @Elora445 Год назад

      For Sweden I suggest: Olof Palme (first murdered prime minister, but interesting one before that). Louis the Geer the older and/or the younger (some of the few who belonged to no party - only father and son that I know of in Swedish politics). Tage Erlander (longest running prime minister - 23 years). Heck, an episode of the extremely long time our social democratic party held the power uninterrupted - 1936 to 1976 - would also be interesting.

    • @sarahhomrighausen7349
      @sarahhomrighausen7349 Год назад +2

      And historical foreign ministers / secretaries of state - Metternich to Colbert to Machiavelli were "foreign secretaries" of the ruling families/heads of state of their day and location.

    • @badluck5647
      @badluck5647 Год назад +1

      Personally, I don't think currect politicians are a good idea as topics. Current politics makes biases too fresh and the living are still doing stuff that could change their legacies.

    • @theawesomeman9821
      @theawesomeman9821 Год назад

      @@sarahhomrighausen7349 I believe he covered Metternich in a past video

  • @ginocappugino
    @ginocappugino Год назад +4

    "Hey, VSauce, Michael here."

  • @pepp4560
    @pepp4560 Год назад +2

    Former Pres. Franklin Pierce was alive during the Civil War and, like Tyler, did not support the Northern position, even though he lived in New Hampshire. He did write a letter during the secession crisis appealing to the people of Alabama to remain in the Union, but this was because, unlike many Northern Democrats, Pierce wanted to avoid war at all costs. Wrote Pierce, "I will never justify, sustain or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless, unnecessary war."
    Pierce had a close friendship with Jefferson Davis and opposed Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus. He proposed an assembly of former U.S. presidents to resolve the secession issue, but his proposal went nowhere. He was repeatedly accused of disloyalty to the Union and even of plotting to overthrow the government. Pierce gave a speech to New Hampshire Democrats in July 1863 vilifying Lincoln even as the Union was achieving its victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
    Some Democrats tried to place Pierce's name in nomination for the 1864 presidential election, but Pierce wasn’t interested. When Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865, a mob gathered outside Pierce's home in New Hampshire, demanding to know why he hadn’t raised a flag as a public gesture of mourning.

    • @garryharris3777
      @garryharris3777 Месяц назад

      I also believe Franklyn Pierce has been given a bad rep by people who bend history to suit their own viewpoints.

  • @jordanjoseph2474
    @jordanjoseph2474 Год назад +2

    I'm from Richmond va born and raised and I saw that they recently changed the name of the community colleges named after him. As an African American whom he would've wanted in shackles on a plantation somewhere, I'm very thankful for all the recent changes in my state. Thanks for another amazingly informative biographics Simon.

  • @polumathes9729
    @polumathes9729 Год назад +7

    Would you be willing to do a Biographics on Simon Whistler?

  • @minus100plus2
    @minus100plus2 Год назад +3

    Wow. Super appreciate this series. Can't wait for more.

  • @jay-1800
    @jay-1800 Год назад +6

    I think nowadays more and more people are starting to attribute Harrison’s death to Cholera from drinking the DC water.DC’s water infrastructure and sewer was pretty bad during the team.Harrison,Polk,and Taylor two of whom died in office and Polk who died a month after all said that they suffered gastrointestinal issues in office.

    • @michaelplanchunas3693
      @michaelplanchunas3693 Год назад +1

      Up until the last decade of the 19th century. People assigned by foreign governments to Washington in their embassy, were given an additional stipend because Washington was considered a 'hardship posting'. Unpaved streets, malarial swamps, little street lighting, mosquitos (Yellow Fever), unsanitary conditions, few good restaurants.

  • @uprightape100
    @uprightape100 Год назад +10

    Thank you all so much to all who worked on this. I love the history of the slow motion train wreck that led to the American Civil War.
    Speaking of train wrecks, something on Brexit would be hilarious.......or is it too soon? Or too painful for Tories?

    • @eq1373
      @eq1373 Год назад

      ​@@john-paulhunt coming from people who smash up colleges when there are speakers there that they don't like?

  • @Nick-hm2dm
    @Nick-hm2dm Год назад +11

    Simon needs to bring back his fly ass old shirts and sponsor them.

  • @Dank-gb6jn
    @Dank-gb6jn Год назад +8

    “I can never consent to being dictated to.” -John Tyler

  • @ellwoodblue5453
    @ellwoodblue5453 Год назад +1

    I love seeing you facted checked by other youtubers. Peoples profile being one. Another I recently saw was vlogging through history about some US presidents. Thanks for your content on the many channels you have. Cheers mate from the US

  • @scottneuherz5662
    @scottneuherz5662 Год назад +3

    If Tyler didn't like "his accidency" he shoulda just returned those letters unopened too :p

  • @ethanramos4441
    @ethanramos4441 Год назад +12

    “I contend that the strongest of all government is that which is most free”
    John Tyler

    • @Hooibeest2D
      @Hooibeest2D Год назад +1

      So America never has a strong government? According to the standard of a democratic, social and liberal country they teach at schools in my country, America doesn't fit the picture. 😅

    • @odinfromcentr2
      @odinfromcentr2 Год назад +1

      And yet he joined one at the end of his life that existed for the sole, single, solitary, exclusive purpose of preserving and, if they could have gotten away with it, further propagating an institution that denied to millions freedom to be regarded by law at a higher social status than an end table.

  • @MuddieRain
    @MuddieRain Год назад +5

    Crazy how he still has a living grandchild

  • @invictusfarmer7188
    @invictusfarmer7188 Год назад +1

    Biden: hold my ice cream cone

  • @timlamiam
    @timlamiam Год назад +9

    Harrison giving a nearly 2 hour long inauguration speech (to this day, a record for longest inauguration speech in history), in the rain in winter, and then dying of pneumonia that he caught from being out in freezing rain for 3 hours, always makes me laugh

    • @dougmcelroy3780
      @dougmcelroy3780 Год назад +1

      He wanted to prove he was an educated man, not just a military man. Didn't end well, did it?

    • @ProfessorChaos56
      @ProfessorChaos56 9 месяцев назад

      @@dougmcelroy3780 That is a myth. Yes, he didn't wear a coat on a chilly day, true, but autopsies of his remains have concluded that he die by drinking D.C.'s contaminated water.

  • @seanbrazell7095
    @seanbrazell7095 Год назад +3

    Oh happy day! A new biographics episode! So many SW channels, so little time! 😉

  • @MrPatrick34
    @MrPatrick34 Год назад +3

    This silly brit ignores the glorious fact that it was John Tyler, not Stonewall Jackson who was the beneficiary of the only state funeral held by the Confederate States of America! Over the objection of Tyler's own family, President Davis ensured that Tyler lay in state as a former president and was appropriately honored.

  • @MFPhoto1
    @MFPhoto1 4 месяца назад +2

    There are numerous reasons to dislike Tyler, but all future Presidents owe him a debt. Tyler's insistence that he had the full powers of the Presidency ensured that future holders of the office would be more than just a figurehead. I recommend the book "Accidental Presidents" by Jared Cohen. He gives a good account of the Tyler presidency, as well as of the other Vice-Presidents who inherited the office.

  • @crazyman8472
    @crazyman8472 6 месяцев назад +1

    “In elementary school, Tyler disagreed with the headmaster of his school, which is standard, so he organized his fellow classmates and staged a revolt, which is *crazy*.” 😵‍💫
    -from “How To Fight Presidents”, by Daniel O’Brien

  • @Sam-lj9vj
    @Sam-lj9vj Год назад +5

    Would love to see a George Wallace Biographics!

  • @GarroLegionofOne
    @GarroLegionofOne Год назад +4

    Can you do one about William Pitt the Younger please!

  • @richardgadberry8398
    @richardgadberry8398 Год назад

    His Accidency, John Tyler.

  • @dr.rockzo
    @dr.rockzo Год назад +1

    Back in the 90’s I was in one of the toughest gangs in the five burrows…The Van Buren Boys. 8 for life homie!!

  • @freeturnity1
    @freeturnity1 Год назад +3

    Great video! You should do a video about Billy Graham or William Faulkner.

  • @samuelfaiman1387
    @samuelfaiman1387 Год назад +20

    The final words of the video really do stand out. Tyler isn't talked about or taught about in America, much if at all. He really is just a name to memorize for most of the country, if that. Without a legacy, but only a bad legacy if any. Perhaps this is different in some places in the country.

    • @emckeon9766
      @emckeon9766 Год назад +1

      I mean to be fair that's the case with most presidents seems school is mostly considered about memorization other than the founders and some modern day presidents I don't remember ever taking much time to talk about the other presidents

    • @davidt3563
      @davidt3563 Год назад +1

      Yup I came here to say the same. This video taught me more about him than school did.

    • @wingracer1614
      @wingracer1614 Год назад +4

      Depends on where your from. I'm from VA. Went to a high school named after a famous civil war historian and author. We were taught about ALL the VA Presidents and how great they all were. It's only later that we found out Jefferson wasn't all that great, Tyler, Taylor and Wilson were horrible and everything we were taught is propaganda. At least we still have Washington

    • @groussac
      @groussac Год назад

      @@wingracer1614 I went to school in KY. I still remember the expression of disgust on the face of the history teacher in Jr HS when we covered the topic of manifest destiny. As for the rest of US history, it seemed like there was an attempt to be fair except when it came to Reconstruction. Other than the impossibility of eliminating the bias of historians, there are 2 key problems in teaching kids about history: 1) Kids most likely don't trust you; 2) There isn't enough time to cover everything. The best a history teacher can do is to admit up front that any history is influenced by the point of view of the historian; that there isn't enough time to cover everything; and that you should read history on your own and make up your own mind about what happened, and why. BTW, Jefferson is still one of my heroes. He wasn't perfect, but he was close...

    • @wingracer1614
      @wingracer1614 Год назад

      @@groussac Don't get me wrong, there is a lot to like about Jefferson. I mean I'm virginian and a lover of wine and classical music, it's like we're kin, LOL. My point is that in my schools, he was taught as being practically a demigod. It's only later I learned he was a much more nuanced character and not all of those nuances were good. Like all the founding fathers that they loved to put on a pedestal, they were human beings with all the same flaws we have.
      And let's talk about Sherman. Here's a guy that my teachers very nearly ignored. He was mentioned here or there but mostly glossed over and on those rare occasions when he was mentioned, portrayed as the antichrist. As opposed to Lee who was the greatest general in the history of all mankind. A true saint among all us poor sinners. Fortunately my love of military history led to many more studies to find that Sherman is someone that should have been taught much more. The man was brilliant, practical and daring in all the right proportions. Possibly the greatest military mind this country has produced or at least top five and he was a vilified afterthought in my classes. But what do you expect growing up in the capitol of the confederacy. At least they took down Lee's statue at last.

  • @hugowilliams1988
    @hugowilliams1988 Год назад +1

    One of John Tyler's grandsons is still alive. Unbelievable.

  • @WhiteCamry
    @WhiteCamry Год назад +1

    @ 1:21 ... "when he advocated for succession ..." The word you're looking for is "secession."

  • @andreasrau2161
    @andreasrau2161 Год назад +10

    Good morning, Simon!
    I love the stuff you present on all of your programs.
    You might want to do some Biographics about the US vice presidents who didn't win the presidency afterwards.

  • @Static-ash
    @Static-ash Год назад +14

    Holy crap he's got a living grandchild?? That's wild

    • @Ibelikemj
      @Ibelikemj Год назад +6

      He had two but one died last year.

    • @TommyB1524
      @TommyB1524 Год назад +2

      I'm pretty sure he recently passed away though. Either in 2020 or 2021...I could be wrong though

    • @rg8956
      @rg8956 Год назад +2

      Joe Biden?

  • @deniseroe5891
    @deniseroe5891 Год назад +2

    One thing I didn't hear you mention is that Texas is still a republic. We retain the right to succeed from the union if we so choose too and out state flag is flown at the same height as the US flag. We Texans are a proud (possibly arrogant) bunch.

    • @ernestareheart4238
      @ernestareheart4238 Год назад

      ??? This would not hold up in any constitutional court case. Texas was annexed by the U.S. and gave up any independence willingly. Where is any evidence of what you are saying??

  • @halinar1
    @halinar1 Год назад +1

    Little did he know you could just keep printing more money to keep things afloat

  • @victoriabaker6943
    @victoriabaker6943 Год назад +9

    I always like the work this presenter does. He brings himself to the vlog or podcast. He is intelligent, interested in his topic& has done his homework. It’s great to see & hear him.

    • @LoPhatKao
      @LoPhatKao Год назад +1

      welcome to the Whistlerverse
      Simon, our benevolent Fact Boi overlord, shall spew information through your auditory and ocular orifices and slowly take over your recommended videos
      soon all you see, hear, or dream about will be _the BeArD_
      eventually you will go far enough down the rabbit hole to know who ETK is ..........

    • @ethandoyle8812
      @ethandoyle8812 Год назад

      I agree, but to be fair he has quite a team behind him. He basically just reads the script that his team gives him, but they are the ones doing all the research behind the videos. He is the nucleus and originator though so he does deserve a lot of the credit.

  • @demigodLuis
    @demigodLuis Год назад +3

    Would love to see Sasaki Kojiro next.

  • @michaelhowell2326
    @michaelhowell2326 Год назад +1

    John Tyler can rest easy now. He has been overshadowed by the current resident.

  • @arifburakkirik2282
    @arifburakkirik2282 Год назад +2

    Simon please can you do Tsar Nicholas the 2nd

  • @rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185
    @rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185 Год назад +4

    I’ve got to be honest he can’t be that hated I’ve never heard of him

  • @1mrflo
    @1mrflo Год назад +3

    After doing some research I found that I have a distant relative who was owned by this family.

  • @charlessands3458
    @charlessands3458 2 месяца назад

    I've been to Hollywood cemetery in Richmond. John Tyler is buried within no more than 30 ft of President Monroe.

  • @ThePhatFilosopher
    @ThePhatFilosopher Год назад +2

    It’s cool to hear your hometown shouted out in a biographics vid💪🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

  • @tardistime6857
    @tardistime6857 Год назад +3

    Biden should be on this list

  • @MajorSleeve
    @MajorSleeve Год назад +1

    Sorry but "His Accidency" makes it sound like he was prone to poopin his shorts bro

    • @MajorSleeve
      @MajorSleeve Год назад +1

      Lil Johnny Tywer be needing a diaper change

  • @dennisyoung4631
    @dennisyoung4631 11 месяцев назад

    “Tippecanoe and Tyler too!”

  • @Kelfuma
    @Kelfuma Год назад +3

    I think it is remarkable that America can have such presidents like John Tyler and others but still survive and push through as a country.

    • @wingracer1614
      @wingracer1614 Год назад

      That's the whole point of the system. It is not reliant on one guy. The President's power is really quite limited. And if he does suck, we don't have to assassinate him or anything, just wait it out a few years for the next election. Remember that next time local or congressional races come around.

    • @bezllama3325
      @bezllama3325 Год назад

      John Tyler wasn't that bad, Buchanan, Pierce and Johnson were MUCH worse

  • @eastsidereviews727
    @eastsidereviews727 Год назад +3

    Always enjoy a Biographics on a President, good video as always from the crew.
    Idk if he is the worst or most hated, but it's always fascinating learning about these old guys.

  • @dougmcelroy3780
    @dougmcelroy3780 Год назад

    You missed the interesting factoid that Harrison was the first president to have his veto overridden. The first! It was on an unimportant minor issue, but there it is.

  • @cessna101
    @cessna101 Год назад

    What a wonderful presentation! You certainly made it so very interesting by weaving the facts in to captivating stories! And who doesn’t love a good story?

  • @4kgamingmurphyslaw586
    @4kgamingmurphyslaw586 Год назад +3

    Woodrow Wilson is 100% the worst of all time

    • @alicemoore2036
      @alicemoore2036 Год назад

      The closest we’ve had to a dictator. O and B are trying though.

    • @NoOne-kr4jc
      @NoOne-kr4jc Месяц назад

      ​@@alicemoore2036Trump beats them all. George W. Bush also pushed for dictator power.

    • @NoOne-kr4jc
      @NoOne-kr4jc Месяц назад

      He is barely in league with Andrew Johnson, Trump, and Buchanan.

    • @4kgamingmurphyslaw586
      @4kgamingmurphyslaw586 Месяц назад

      @NoOne-kr4jc we are talking policy and how they negatively effected the country/world. Johnson was a terrible president, Buchanan was just there more or less and Trumps policy actually helped a lot of people. While Willson is at least partially responsible for most of if not all major issues we face today.

    • @NoOne-kr4jc
      @NoOne-kr4jc 27 дней назад

      @@4kgamingmurphyslaw586 How did Trump assist ppl?

  • @darcreave2683
    @darcreave2683 Год назад +6

    I heard you say John Senior and I thought you said John Cena. I need to go back to bed 😪

  • @joeysworldsewer
    @joeysworldsewer Год назад +2

    A fascinating historical figure I think you should cover is the legendary Seminole Chief Osceola. He was done dirty at the end when the American's captured him and it caused considerable controversy amongst even white Americans who viewed his capture as shady.

  • @mistervacation23
    @mistervacation23 Год назад +1

    Why Johnny Tyler, madcap. Where you going with that shotgun?

  • @andreidavid3770
    @andreidavid3770 Год назад +3

    Plss do Jimmy Carter

  • @chiara1194
    @chiara1194 Год назад +5

    I live on a highway named after him! It’s one of the most beautiful roads in Virginia.
    And fun fact: his GRANDSON is still alive and kicking!

    • @zaco-km3su
      @zaco-km3su Год назад

      I think that road will not be named after him for long.

    • @brinkgats5938
      @brinkgats5938 Год назад +1

      @@zaco-km3su why not? His home is right on the road and is fitting for his namesake

    • @brinkgats5938
      @brinkgats5938 Год назад +1

      I agree it’s is a beautiful road

    • @zaco-km3su
      @zaco-km3su Год назад

      @@brinkgats5938
      Because he supported slavery. It's fitting that the name will be changed.

    • @wingracer1614
      @wingracer1614 Год назад

      Been down good old Rt 5 many times. Beautiful drive especially in autumn

  • @bobbyread6883
    @bobbyread6883 Год назад +1

    A contender is going for that title hard. Obiden: hold my ice cream....

  • @thunderdeed1
    @thunderdeed1 Год назад

    He was called the President without a party but before he left office a large send-off was held for him. In one of his only time of wit he said at the event " they can't say I'm a President without a party".

  • @MistaTofMaine
    @MistaTofMaine Год назад +9

    Tbh this guy seems a lot better then our current president.

    • @non-wokemillennialakat85re72
      @non-wokemillennialakat85re72 Год назад

      And that's a understatement...

    • @nerdguru86
      @nerdguru86 Год назад +2

      Is this comment serious? Tyler was horrible..I mean...Biden is not great at all...but to say Tyler was better is hogwash lol

  • @badluck5647
    @badluck5647 Год назад +14

    To all the trolls: Zero people care about your opinion on Biden or Trump.

  • @yossarianmnichols9641
    @yossarianmnichols9641 Год назад

    Hey, the Constructionists are back in power in SCOTUS.

    • @josephgriffin2388
      @josephgriffin2388 Год назад

      And unborn lives are being saved because of it. Abortion is like slavery: its a "peculiar institution".
      No...... it's ugenics.

  • @redjirachi1
    @redjirachi1 Год назад

    William Henry Harrison must be furious that you covered his grandson and vice president before him

  • @chrisaguilera1564
    @chrisaguilera1564 Год назад +4

    Worst American president in history? Oh boy that opens a whole can of worms.

    • @frankieseward8667
      @frankieseward8667 Год назад +2

      19th century at least.

    • @kristiskinner8542
      @kristiskinner8542 Год назад +5

      'Most hated" not "worst" that'd be a 2nd category lol

    • @Talisguy
      @Talisguy Год назад +2

      They (deservedly) called Buchanan "the worst." "Most hated" is different.

    • @joemagnus5085
      @joemagnus5085 Год назад

      Most hated of a particular century isn't the same thing

  • @fireandicewine
    @fireandicewine Год назад +5

    Your video commentary proves he was a good President. America would be a better nation to have another Tyler. Andrew Jackson, America's best President, said his best act was to "kill the bank." Tyler, not folding from pressure from his corrupt Whig Party, made sure the bank stayed dead. Thank you President Tyler.
    I've visited his grave at Hollywood cemetery, my favorite graveyard, with 3 Presidents, including Jefferson Davis.

  • @starrywizdom
    @starrywizdom Год назад

    Now I have to comb through Biographics & see if you've done Polk, or Harrison!

  • @Dovietail
    @Dovietail Год назад +5

    I was engaged to Calhoun's direct descendant and can speak with authority to the fact that every male member of his family reaching all the way back to John was severely bipolar. Don't tell ME mental illness is only a tragedy to the individual's family. Calhoun was a national tragedy.

    • @SingingWolf77
      @SingingWolf77 Год назад

      As someone who suffers from bipolar disorder, I don't blame the mental illness. I blame the ignorance of the medical community at the time.

  • @JoshuaTreePark2002
    @JoshuaTreePark2002 Год назад +3

    Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  • @jakes3799
    @jakes3799 Год назад +1

    For a forgotten President, Tyler sure had a huge effect on the trajectory of this country. His actions lead to the additions of the entire Southwest and the settling of the border with Maine. He completely altered the path of the US economy by thwarting Clay's agenda. And his actions were the first step towards bringing the country towards civil war.

  • @MisterTutor2010
    @MisterTutor2010 Год назад +2

    Shortest vice presidency :)

  • @15thGenerationTidewaterFarmer
    @15thGenerationTidewaterFarmer Год назад +6

    John Tyler has been my favoritest president. I have actually written his name on several ballots.

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 Год назад +7

    Make the next president biographic on Abraham Lincoln!

    • @anthony452
      @anthony452 Год назад +4

      You should check out ragaholics Lincoln documentary. His style of delivery is intense but the information about Lincoln would never be told by an outlet like Biographics.
      I go to Biographics when I want the watered down school book version of history.

    • @batzzz2044
      @batzzz2044 Год назад +2

      Agreed Biographics is a good little g....er boy I mean boy.

    • @Talisguy
      @Talisguy Год назад

      I actually really like their approach of (mostly) prioritising the presidents who aren't huge names over the Big Deals.

    • @everburn
      @everburn Год назад

      @@anthony452 that lost causer?

    • @sandybarnes887
      @sandybarnes887 Год назад

      He did it on Today I Found Out a few years ago. It's called, "The Wrasling President" I agree, tho. A new one about him here on this channel would be great

  • @vxnvee8193
    @vxnvee8193 Год назад +1

    It has been a while since I've watched Biographics

  • @StressClub7
    @StressClub7 Год назад +2

    Hello, is it possible for you to do a biographics on Roman emperor Caracalla?

    • @wingracer1614
      @wingracer1614 Год назад

      Hm, that would be an interesting one

  • @strflp7316
    @strflp7316 Год назад +8

    As much as I love your channel, it started to focus more on American personalities and being someone interested more in world history than US history, some clips made me check the channel less than I usually did. Having such great and quality content, I'd wish to see more videos on people across the world. We have scientists, we have political leaders, people who inspire. For example I'd be more interested in key communist leaders from Eastern Europe than in wild west vigilantes that i'd never heared about. More african people who influenced their countries, people from post-war Japan(Yukio Mishima for example though I did not check if you made a bio on him).

    • @traeherren2269
      @traeherren2269 Год назад +5

      Let the man make what he wants. You are free to make your own videos.

    • @ethandoyle8812
      @ethandoyle8812 Год назад +2

      He has like ten channels, no exaggeration, so you may want to check the others and see if one fits better.

    • @strflp7316
      @strflp7316 Год назад +3

      @@ethandoyle8812 i'm subscribed at at least half of them but thus far as I am interested in history, this one is my favourite. I just stated my opinion politely

    • @strflp7316
      @strflp7316 Год назад +1

      @@traeherren2269 better would be to say 'the team' not the man since there are at least 10 people involved in his channels. I just stated my opinion as a long-time subscriber

    • @badluck5647
      @badluck5647 Год назад +3

      Roman Emperors and American Presidents get views. I'm not sure there are many left that he hasn't covered.

  • @btuckervideos4705
    @btuckervideos4705 Год назад +4

    If anything, the groundwork of Texas annexation (however flawed his motives were) and the precedent of Presidential succession are the only major 'achievements' Tyler made as President. Still, always worth an interesting biography of another US President

  • @rickwilson8578
    @rickwilson8578 Год назад +1

    This is the first Biographics where I found … incomplete balance.
    In Recarving Rushmore, Ivan Eland ranks all US presidents upon four criteria only:
    Adherence to the Constitution, and their influence upon Peace, Prosperity and the Liberty of the nations citizens.
    Now, Eland is a Libertarian, not an R or a D, and I know that L’s get a bit weird, especially when it comes to issues of centralized government power.
    Still. It is fascinating that Eland ranks Tyler as the greatest president in US history.
    (Followed by Grover Cleveland)
    Do I personally agree? No; yet Tyler did follow our Constitution better than any of his peers, at the cost of his own political career.
    Also, according to Eland-
    “Tyler’s greatest triumph may have been in reversing the terrible policies toward Native Americans perpetrated by his predecessors, Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren.”
    Given that so many presidents from McKinley on have grabbed more and more power into the Executive branch, and have started wars without asking Congress, I most certainly would not rank Tyler among the worst.

  • @s.henrlllpoklookout5069
    @s.henrlllpoklookout5069 Год назад

    Slight quibble: there have only been 45 presidents. Grover Cleveland served 2 non-consecutive terms

  • @rogerpenske2411
    @rogerpenske2411 Год назад +3

    God bless Texas!