In this episode, I take a look at John Tyler, the Virginian who served as Harrison’s running mate and vice-president before assuming the presidency, as well as antebellum Virginia leading up to Harrison’s presidency in 1841.
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Sources used for this episode:
* Braverman, Howard. “The Economic and Political Background of the Conservative Revolt in Virginia.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 60:2 (Apr 1952) pp. 266-287.
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* Cleaves, Freeman. Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time. Newtown, CT: American Political Biography Press, 2010 [1939].
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* Dabney, Virginius. Virginia: The New Dominion. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1971.
* Gates, Paul F. The Farmer’s Age: Agriculture, 1815-1860: Volume III, The Economic History of the United States. Armonk, NY & London, England, UK: M E Sharpe Inc, 1989.
* “Genealogy of John Tyler and his Descendants.” Sherwood Forest: Home of President John Tyler.
http://www.sherwoodforest.org/Genealogy.html. Last Accessed: 31 July 2016.
* Gunderson, Robert Gray. The Log-Cabin Campaign. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977 [1957].
* Harrison, William Henry. “The Speech of General Harrison delivered at the Old Hamilton Convention Thursday the 1st of October 1840,” Reel 23, Martin Van Buren Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
* Peterson, Norma Lois. The Presidencies of William Henry Harrison & John Tyler. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1989.