{"id":28657,"date":"2025-05-29T03:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/last-living-grandson-of-10th-u-s-president-john-tyler-a-link-to-a-bygone-era-dies-at-96\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T03:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T03:00:26","slug":"last-living-grandson-of-10th-u-s-president-john-tyler-a-link-to-a-bygone-era-dies-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/last-living-grandson-of-10th-u-s-president-john-tyler-a-link-to-a-bygone-era-dies-at-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Last living grandson of 10th U.S. President John Tyler, a link to a bygone era, dies at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The last living grandson of the 10th U.S. President John Tyler has died at 96 years old \u2014 the end of a link to a bygone era of American history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Harrison Ruffin Tyler died on Sunday evening, May 25, his family said in a statement to CBS News. His grandfather, who was born in 1790, left the Oval Office more than 179 years ago, after serving from 1841 to 1845, well before the Civil War. President Tyler&#8217;s immediate descendants lived into the modern age because of two generations of late second marriages to much younger wives.<\/p>\n<p>John Tyler, a Virginian slave owner and lifelong Democrat, served as the vice president to William Henry Harrison and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehousehistory.org\/bios\/john-tyler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">became president<\/a> quite unexpectedly after Harrison <a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/blog\/what-really-killed-the-first-president-to-die-in-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">died suddenly<\/a>\u00a0three weeks after his inauguration \u2014 the first president to die while in office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the time, succession plans weren&#8217;t fully established and Tyler was initially hesitant about taking over, <a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/blog\/what-really-killed-the-first-president-to-die-in-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according<\/a> to the National Constitution Center. He took the oath of office in public on April 6, 1841, saying, &#8220;I am the President, and I shall be held responsible for my administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/28\/434f0531-2fc2-4548-85f0-5f8f3a3bb5c1\/thumbnail\/620x536g1\/5e46b6cf13d65c30aa3c9a2e948d58fa\/gettyimages-113626564.jpg?v=0ec0a9b0c45ecf3b0dd269ffc8f350b0#\" alt=\"President John Tyler  \" height=\"536\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/28\/434f0531-2fc2-4548-85f0-5f8f3a3bb5c1\/thumbnail\/620x536g1\/5e46b6cf13d65c30aa3c9a2e948d58fa\/gettyimages-113626564.jpg?v=0ec0a9b0c45ecf3b0dd269ffc8f350b0 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/28\/434f0531-2fc2-4548-85f0-5f8f3a3bb5c1\/thumbnail\/1240x1072g1\/05ea17f04424313e0ef605ac13fe23aa\/gettyimages-113626564.jpg?v=0ec0a9b0c45ecf3b0dd269ffc8f350b0 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, from a painting by Alonzo Chappel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>John Tyler was married twice and had 15 children \u2014 eight children with his first wife, Letitia, who died from a stroke, and then seven more with his second wife, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehousehistory.org\/bios\/julia-tyler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Julia Gardiner Tyler,<\/a> who was 24 when they married. He fathered most of the second set of children in his 50s and 60s; his last child, a daughter named Pearl, was born when he was 70 years old, <a href=\"https:\/\/millercenter.org\/president\/tyler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according<\/a> to the University of Virginia&#8217;s Miller Center.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler&#8217;s 13th child, Lyon, was born when his father was 63 years old. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, who served as <a href=\"https:\/\/scrc-kb.libraries.wm.edu\/lyon-gardiner-tyler-1853-1935\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">president of William and Mary College<\/a>, also married twice. With his second wife, Sue Ruffin Tyler, he had two sons born in the 1920s, when Lyon was in his 70s, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopediavirginia.org\/entries\/tyler-lyon-gardiner-1853-1935\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Encyclopedia Virginia<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of those children was Harrison Ruffin Tyler.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Harrison Ruffin Tyler lived in Virginia and co-founded ChemTreat, an industrial water treatment company, in 1968. He loved history and his birthplace, Charles City County, Virginia, his family said, which led to his work preserving both Sherwood Forest, President Tyler&#8217;s home, and Fort Pocahontas, a Civil War fortification nearby<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will be remembered for his considerable charm, generosity and unfailing good humor by all who knew him,&#8221; Annique Dunning, executive director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherwoodforest.org\/About_SF.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sherwood Forest<\/a>, said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/cara-tabachnick\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Cara  Tabachnick<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. 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