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John Tyler
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A painting of John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States, from the National Collection of Fine Arts of the Smithsonian Institute. John Tyler was elected Vice President under William Henry Harrison and succeeded into the office of the president, the first to do so, after Harrison died a month after his inauguration.
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