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John Tyler: Civil War
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John Tyler studied Zoology and Conservation at Oxford and London before joining the Ecological Parks Trust, where he ran Britain's first urban ecological park, near Tower Bridge in London. He was subsequently Warden of the Sevenoaks Reserve in Kent for 21 years.
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Tyler, nominated by a small Democratic faction, had withdrawn from the 1844 election. In Feb., 1861, he presided over the unsuccessful conference at Washington that attempted to find some last-minute solution to avert the Civil War. Later, he served in the provisional Confederate Congress and was elected to the permanent Confederate Congress, but he died before he could take his seat.
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"This book poignantly portrays the tragic irony of John Tyler's legacy to America. Like Thomas Jefferson, Tyler believed that the expansion of slave territory would insure the survival of republican liberty. But instead it brought secession and Civil War. Siding against the nation he once led, Tyler died in the midst of a war that gave the nation a new birth of freedom by destroying the social order that Tyler had championed.”--James M. McPherson, Princeton University
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Tyler was effective even though he was a President without a party. He resolved Dorr's Rebellion, a civil war between two political factions in Rhode Island. He reorganized the navy. A few days before he left office, Tyler won his most important victory: Congress admitted Texas to the Union.
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During his years in office, Tyler brought a end to the Seminole war in Florida in 1842. The very same year dispute with Maine and Canada was settled on a set up by Webster who stayed with Cabinet for this reason.
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