Legacy: As vice president, John Tyler set the example for a seamless and immediate succession of presidential power when an incumbent president dies. Tyler demonstrated how a president who was willing ...

As uphappy as Congress was with Jackson's veto, neither chamber could muster the votes to override him. In 1845, President John Tyler vetoed a bill that would prohibit the president from ...

John Tyler was elected vice president in 1840 ... He was the first president to have a veto overridden by Congress. His Whig party chose not to endorse him in 1844, so he retired to a 1,600 ...

While the term “veto” does not appear in the Constitution ... of a president’s interdiction occurred in 1845 for John Tyler. Historically, of the 37 chief executives who blocked legislative ...