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The latter part of Tyler's tenure was dominated by the Texas question. After Texas won its independence from Mexico, the Jackson and Martin Van Buren administrations refrained from annexation because of the position of the North, which opposed incorporating more slave territory into the United States. Rejecting this opposition, Calhoun negotiated a treaty of annexation. This was turned down by the Senate in 1844. The question played a part in the election of 1844, after which the administration pushed a joint resolution through Congress providing for the incorporation of Texas. It was passed on the last day of Tyler's administration.
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Tyler grew up in Virginia and became a lawyer. His father was ... a lawyer who later became governor of Virginia. Tyler became a state representative in the United States Congress, and then also became governor of Virginia like his father.
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Tyler was quick to share his poetry with members of Julia's family. Robert Seager writes that Julia's first cousin Phoebe "often received his poetic outpourings to cheer her dreary existence on Shelter Island, and after the Gardiners moved . . . to Staten Island in 1852 [Julia's younger sister] Margaret was the subject and recipient of a piece titled 'Margaret of the Isle' which began":
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Tyler's last act in office was perhaps the most significant: he signed the bill annexing Texas, which had formerly been part of Mexico... extending the territory of slave-holding states and unbalancing the Missouri Compromise. The consequences of this act, which triggered war with Mexico, Tyler left to his successor, James K. Polk.
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In 1845, three days before leaving office, John Tyler signed into law the joint resolution allowing for the annexation of Texas. Importantly, the resolution extended 36 degrees 30 minutes as the mark dividing free and slave states through Texas.
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Unquestionably "Pacific-mindedness" was one of the hallmarks of the Tyler presidency. With the guidance and collaboration of New Englander Webster, Tyler consciously and deliberately pursued several bold initiatives. Perhaps the most outlandish was the 1842 tripartite scheme to partition Mexico and settle the Oregon controversy. Anticipating Great Britain's support for the plan, this American expansionist duo proposed that in return for dropping two million dollars in American claims against Mexico, that government would cede all of California north of the thirtysecond parallel, which included the harbors of San Francisco and Monterey, to the United States. The next step would include Mexico's recognition of Texan independence, followed by a joint MexicanAmerican agreement guaranteeing an independent Texas republic.
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