Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the grandson of President John Tyler, has handed away on the age of 96.
His loss of life marks the top of a residing hyperlink to an Nineteenth-century U.S. presidency and an individual of intrigue for a lot of political historians.
Tyler was the son of Lyon Gardiner Tyler and the grandson of John Tyler, who served because the tenth president of america from 1841 to 1845.
His mom, Susan Ruffin Tyler, descended instantly from Pocahontas.
According to The Richmond Occasions-Dispatch, Harrison died of dementia over the Memorial Day weekend in his Virginia nursing residence.
The final residing grandson of President John Tyler has died.
Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 and died in 2025.
His grandfather, the tenth President of america, was born in 1790 and died in 1862. pic.twitter.com/MIBD1u71EM
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Tyler was born on November 9, 1928. His father, Lyon Sr., was 75 on the time. Lyon Sr. had been born when President John Tyler was 63.
The previous president, who died in 1862, had 15 youngsters of his personal.
He studied at St. Christopher’s Faculty in Richmond, then went on to William & Mary and Virginia Tech. In 1968, he co-founded ChemTreat, a water therapy firm that served main purchasers like Kraft and Philip Morris.
Tyler married Frances Payne Bouknight Tyler in 1957. They’d three youngsters and eight grandchildren earlier than her loss of life in 2019.
In 1975, Harrison purchased and restored Sherwood Forest Plantation, his grandfather’s former residence, and opened it to the general public. He additionally preserved Fort Pocahontas, a Civil Struggle website constructed by Black Union troopers, in 1996.
In 2001, he donated 1000’s of paperwork, books, and $5 million to William & Mary’s historical past division. The varsity renamed the division after him in 2021.
John Tyler, born in 1790 shortly after George Washington’s inauguration, grew up on a Virginia plantation.
He grew to become president in 1841 after William Henry Harrison died simply 31 days into workplace — the primary vp to imagine the presidency that approach.
He was a lifelong slaveowner and a champion of states’ rights, though died only one 12 months after the outbreak of the American Civil Struggle.
