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U.S. President John Tyler

Tenth President of the United States, John Tyler. Courtesy Library of Congress

Question 1:

John Tyler was never elected as president of the United States. John Tyler was vice president when William Henry Harrison died just one month into his term. To date, he is also the only president to have had what surprising action happen to him?

	Have nearly his entire cabinet resign en masse			Constantly find hair in his food

	Get locked out of the White House, and guards didn't know who he was

Question 2:

"I get no respect." February 28, 1844, President Tyler and other high-ranking government officials are taking a short voyage aboard the "USS Princeton," America's first propeller-driven warship. What unfortunate event takes place?

	President Tyler is thrown into the water as the ship turns, and it doesn't stop to pick him up			The ship is fired upon and sunk by a boy on shore with a pellet gun

	The ship explodes, nearly killing the president

Question 3:

President Tyler entered into he record books as the first president to marry while residing at the White House. What should have been a very happy event was underscored by which other event?

	Cannibal food and theme at reception not a big hit			Drinking by wedding party and guests before the ceremony not the brightest idea

	Tyler's previous wife had died while First Lady

Question 4:

1862, When the grim reaper came-a-lookin' for John Tyler, he was in Richmond, Virginia. Tyler had become a member of the House of Representatives for the Confederate Congress. Maybe that's why the Union government announced his death this way....

	Confederate turncoat John Tyler has died			(Silence)

	Former President John "Tough Luck" Tyler has died.....