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. If you have questions, comments, suggestions, please feel free to contact me at harrisonpodcast@gmail.com or comment below. 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. * Bush, George W. Decision Points. New York: Crown, 2010. * Chitwood, Oliver Perry. John Tyler: Champion of the Old South. Newtown, CT: American Political Biography Press, 2003 [1939]. * Cleaves, Freeman. Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time. Newtown, CT: American Political Biography Press, 2010 [1939]. * Cole, Donald B. The Presidency of Andrew Jackson. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993. * 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.