Index
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Aberdeen, Lord (George Hamilton-Gordon), 260, 263, 267–68, 272, 276–77, 315–16, 329
Adams, John, 1, 18, 240
Adams, John Quincy, 67–70, 73–76, 82–83, 109, 130, 238, 241–44, 261, 312, 341
Adams, Louisa Catherine, 202, 337
Albany Evening Journal, 217
Alexander, Mark, 55
Alien and Sedition Acts, 18, 240
Allen, Thomas, 163
Allen, William, 152, 256–57
Amistad, 260
Archer, William S., 55, 160, 163
Arkansas Territory, 59
Armistead, Mary Marot (mother of JT), 14, death of, 22
Armistead, Robert Booth, 14
Arthur, Chester, 130
Ashburton, Lord (Alexander Baring), 263–73, 276–80
Badger, George, 128, 171
Bailey, J. J., 311
Baldwin, Henry, 56, 299, 310
Barbour, Philip Pendleton, 55
Baring Brothers and Company, 263–64, 280
Barrow, Alexander, 160, 163, 176
Bayard, Richard, 169
Beale, Robert, 126–27
Bedell, Gregory Thurston, 336
Beeckman, John, 370
Bell, John, 128, 399
Benton, Thomas Hart, 115–17, 168, 181, 201, 249, 277–78, 285, 324, 329, 365–68; as nemesis of JT, 140–41; death of, 385–87
Berrien, John M., 138, 170–71
Biddle, Nicholas, 291, 295
Bingham, William, 264
Black Republicans, 395, 401
Blackstone’s Commentaries (Blackstone), influence of on JT, 27–28
Blair, Francis Preston, 141, 286, 301, 367–68
Botts, John Minor, 166–69, 182, 186, 239–44, 294; coffeehouse letter, 176–78, 205; as nemesis of JT, 288
Bragg, Thomas, 414
Branton (JT’s overseer), 105–8
Breckinridge, John C., 399
Brent, Richard, 31–32, 118
Brooks, Preston, 395
Brown, Bedford, 92
Brown, John, 396–97
Brown, Richard, 89–90
Brown’s Indian Queen Hotel, 125, 127–31, 404
Buchanan, James, 186, 299, 372, 395–96, 399, 402–4, 408
Burgh, James, 42
Calhoun, John C., 1, 91–92, 118, 157, 166, 188, 219, 242, 250–52, 275, 295, 300, 342, 379; and the Bonus Bill, 49–50, 54–56; intellectual ability of, 4, 39; letter to Pakenham, 329–33, 342, 365–68; and states’ rights, 142
Caroline, 154, 259, 267, 273
Carter, Jimmy, 271
Cass, Lewis, 278, 300–01
Charles City County, VA, 14, 31–36, 66–67, 105, 191, 233, 262, 373, 383, 407–10
Cheves, Langdon, 53
Chitwood, Oliver P., 327
Choate, Rufus, 156
Christian, Letitia (wife of JT), 34–36, 63, 72, 194, 302; ill health of, 57, 95–100, 229–30, 233–34, 272; death of, 283–85, 307–10
Clay, Henry, 1–3, 55, 60, 114–18, 123, 151–64, 165–88, 199, 235–43, 298, 332–33, 354–55, 414; American System, 49–50, 56, 61, 109–10, 116; as arch-nemesis of JT, 338, 354–55; charisma of, 5; “Great Compromiser,” 164, 218; “Great Pacificator,” 160, 172; “Harry of the West,” 159; resignation, 226; Speaker of the House, 39, 50, 67–70, 75, 83; Whigs, 137–50, 166, 203–20, 223–27, 285–93; death of, 379, 386
Clinton, DeWitt, 83, 306
Clopton, John, 37, 45
colonization (as a solution to slavery), 119–21, 226, 281
Commercial Advertiser, 217
Compensation Act, 8, 40–45, 50, 68
Compromise of 1833, 115, 124, 141, 154, 185, 221–22, 224–26, 236–37, 240
Compromise of 1850, 392–93
Confederate Congress, 410–12, 413–14
Congress: Fourteenth, 45–46, lame-duck session, 38, 40; Fifteenth, 44–45, 57–58; Sixteenth, 55, 57–58; Twentieth, 77, lame-duck session, 84; Twenty-Seventh, 151, 174, 187, 214, 240, 245–46, 285, 290, lame-duck session, 287, 298; Twenty-Eighth, 288, 333
Congressional Cemetery, 134, 324
consolidationism, 18, 21, 33, 50, 54, 61–63, 70, 109, 165
Constitutional Union Party, 399
Contesse, Anne, 12
Coolidge, Calvin, 130, 215
Cooper, Priscilla (Robert Tyler’s wife), 119, 197, 234, 284, 302–8, 336, 350–51, 369, 407–9; as White House hostess, 227, 229–30, 270, 305, 337
Cooper, Thomas A., 119, 308
Cranch, William, 128–31
Creole (slave insurrection), 254, 259–63, 267, 270, 277–78
Crittenden, John J., 23, 128, 172, 180–82, 239–40, 402–3; Crittenden Compromise, 405
Curtis, Henry (brother-in-law of JT), 47–48, 51, 57–59, 63–67, 71, 77–82, 95, 103; estrangement and reestablishment of relationship, 107–8, 380
Cushing, Caleb, 176, 242, 288, 292, 298; friendship with JT, 216, 281, 372, 385–86
Daily Express, 216, 254
Davis, Garrett, 235
Davis, John, 268
Davis, Jefferson, 401, 412, 414
Democracy in America (de Tocqueville), 188
Denison, Henry, 373, 382–83
Dew, Thomas R., 142, 364
Dickens, Charles, 230, 271, 283
Donelson, Andrew Jackson, 348
Dorr Rebellion (Dorr War), 247–58
Douglas, Stephen, 394, 396–99. See also Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott case, 395
East Room of the White House, 134, 229–30, 283, 304–5, 310, 324, 339
Edict of Nantes (1685), 12
Electoral College, 70, 143
Elliott, Charles, 313
Era of Good Feelings, 49, 54, 82
Everett, Edward, 260, 272, 291, 316–17
Ewing, Thomas, 128, 170–74, 177–78, 181–82, 209; administration bill, 149–50, 156–64, 169–72
Exchequer Plan, 203–20, 221, 227, 246, 296, 398
Expunging Resolution, 115–18
Fairfield, John, 268–69
Fillmore, Millard, 130, 209, 236
First Families of Virginia (FFV), 5, 12
Fiscal Corporation Bill, 177–84
Floyd, John, 84, 94, 107, 111–14
Force Bill, 113–14
Forward, Walter, 188, 217, 221, 237, 298
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 347
Free-Soil Party, 393
free trade, 3, 24, 55–56, 222–24
Frémont, John C., 395, 399
Gardiner, Alexander, 306, 308, 310, 336–39, 359, 361–63, 365, 368, 390; death of, 361, 370, 363, 385
Gardiner, David, 304–11, 323, 359, 362–63; death of, 324
Gardiner, David Lyon, 306, 308, 310, 338, 359, 361–65, 368, 370, 387
Gardiner, Julia (second wife of JT), 202, 302–11, 322–41, 343–63, 369–90, 399, 408–14; medical care of family, 380–81; as White House hostess, 339–40
Gardiner, Juliana, 304–11, 334–37, 363; acting as midwife to Julia, 359, 369–71, 377, 390
Gardiner, Margaret, 304, 306–11, 323–24, 336–39, 350, 369–70, 374–77; death of, 385
Garrison, William Lloyd, 120–21
Genovese, Eugene, 347
Ghent, Treaty of, 263, 273
Giles, William Branch, 31–32, 118
Gilmer, Francis W., 29
Gilmer, Thomas Walker, 176, 243, 288, 312, 324–26, 366; death of, 324
Gloucester Place (Tyler farm), 107–8, 112, 118
Graham, John Lorimer, 297, 335
Graham, William A., 252–54
Granger, Francis, 128, 188, 209
Green, Duff, 82, 157, 179, 275–76, 315–17, 366
Greenway (generational Tyler home), 14, 29, 34–35, 66–67, 77, 104–8, 191, 303
Gregory (JT’s overseer), 108
Grigsby, Hugh Blair, 33, 385, 390
Grosvenor, Thomas, 41–43, 45, 50
Hall, Fanny, (slave of JT) 354, 357, 388, 404
Hamilton, Alexander, 31, 53, 55, 165
Harding, Warren G., 134
Harrison, William Henry, 1–3, 4, 8–9, 7, 124–25, 131–36, 142, 208, 301, 337, 356; death of, 126–29, 139–41, 149, 203
Hawaii, 8, 281–82
Hawley, William, 134, 229, 283, 324
Hayne, Robert Y., 87
Healy, George P. A., 384
Henderson, J. P., 320, 328
Henderson, John, 176
Hermitage, the, 83, 85, 140–41, 146
Holt, Michael, 245, 287
Hone, Philip, 3, 151
Horsford, Eben, 346–47
Houston, Sam, 312–21, 328, 366
Howard, D. D., 335
Hubbard, James (slave trader), 79–81
Impracticables, 123
Independent Treasury plan, 122, 163, 211, 219–20; repeal of, 137, 144, 156–57, 185
Indian Removal Act of 1830, 92
Irving, Washington, 230, 283
Irwin, W. W., 176, 288
Jackson, Andrew, 1, 4, 52–53, 73–75, 82–94, 109–18, 122–24, 136–41, 146, 168, 179, 186–89, 228, 246, 263, 285–86, 320–21, 331, 338; abuse of presidential power, 5 109, 116, 285; loss of his wife, 83; supporters, 67–70, 75, 82–83, 91–92, 109, 112, 115; and the Turkish mission, 91–92, 112
Jefferson, Thomas, 5, 13, 15–16, 18–20, 29, 55, 61–62, 82, 262, 393; drafting of the Ordinance of 1784, 58; influence on JT, 29, 72, 77, 90
Johnson, Andrew, 130, 246
Johnson, Lyndon, 130
Jones, Henry, 117, 229, 369
Jones, John B., 229, 251, 310
Jones, William, 51, 53
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 394
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 130, 134, 229, 415
Kennedy, John Pendleton, 190
Kentucky Resolutions, 6, 18–19, 24, 27, 111, 393
King, Edward, 299
King, Samuel W., 248–56
kingmaker view, 289–90
Know-Nothing Party, 394–95
Land Act of 1841, 185, 222–26, 236–37
Lecompton Constitution, 395–96
Lee, Henry IV (“Black Horse Harry”), 88–91
Lee, Robert E., 88, 396
Legaré, Hugh Swinton, 188–89, 217, 237, 293, 315, 379; death of, 322
Leigh, Benjamin Watkins, 1, 32, 115, 117
Letcher, Robert, 157–58, 182
Lincoln, Abraham, 134, 390, 399–401, 406–8, 413–14
Louis XIV (king of France), 12
Lowndes, William, 52
Lyons, James, 126–27, 181
Macon, Nathaniel, 61
Macon, Thomas, 10–11
Madison, Dolley, 46, 229–30, 294, 323
Madison, James (bishop), 23–25, 33, 224
Madison, James (US president), 18, 34, 46, 49, 56, 139, 146
Mallory, Francis, 176, 288
Mangum, Willie P., 131, 179, 206, 218, 236–39, 325, 340
Manifest Destiny, 318, 393
Marshall, John, 53–54, 168
Martin vs. Hunter’s Lessee (1816), 54
Maryland Mechanics Institute, 379, 386
Mason, John Young, 123, 326, 348, 355, 363, 366–67
Mayo, Robert, 88–89
McCulloch vs. Maryland (1819), 53–54, 168
McDowell, James, 113–14
McDuffie, George, 327
McFarland, William, 413
McKeon, John, 152
McKinley, William, 134, 184
McLean, John, 188, 305, 311
McLeod, Alexander, 154, 223, 259, 263, 267
Merk, Frederick, 269
Merrick, William D., 160, 163, 176
Middle Plantation, 12
Missouri Compromise, 60–61, 394, 403, 405
Missouri Crisis, 58, 62, 93, 392, 400
Monroe, James, 60, 67–68, 412
Monroe Doctrine, 281, 317
Mons Sacer (Tyler property), 35–37
Murphy, William S., 315, 320
Nagel, Paul, 88–89
Nelson, John, 315, 359
Nelson, Samuel, 299
New York Herald, 295, 352
Nicholas, Robert Carter, 13, 24, 28
Niles’ National Register, 250, 322
Niven, John, 326–27
Noah, Mordecai Manuel, 295–98; ouster, 297–98
Northwest Ordinance (1787), 58, 60
nullification crisis (Tariff of Abominations), 109–16, 122, 189, 255, 285
Onderdonk, Benjamin Treadwell, 335
“Old Hero.” See Jackson, Andrew
Old Northwest, 58, 267
Old Point Comfort, Virginia, 285, 336, 352–53
“Old Republicanism,” 3, 6, 19–21, 28, 49–50, 52, 60–62, 68, 83, 91, 109, 132–38, 205, 393; siege mentality of, 54
Ordinance of 1784, 58
Pakenham, Richard: letter to Upshur, 329, 331; letter from Calhoun, 329–33, 342, 366
Panic of 1819, 53, 55
Panic of 1837, 3, 115, 124, 264, 269
Peel, Robert (British Prime Minister), 260–67, 273–78, 314–16
Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883, 207
Pettigrew, Ebenezer, 152
Pierce, Franklin, 372, 379, 393–95
Political Disquisitions (Burgh), 42
Polk, James K., 299, 326, 333, 338–43, 348–49, 352, 355, 360, 365, 367–68
Porter, Peter, 167, 169
Portland Christian Mirror, 266
Portland Eastern Argus, 269
Presidential Succession Act of 1792, 131
Preston, William Campbell, 29, 141, 160–63, 176, 186, 189, 256
Princeton tragedy, 202, 323–27, 334–35
Princeton University, 86, 306
“Principles of ’98,” 19, 27, 54, 393
Proffit, George H., 176, 242, 288, 298
Quintuple Treaty, 274–76
Randolph, Edmund, 28–29
Randolph, John, 7, 39–40, 49, 61, 72–76
Rantoul, Robert, 335
Reagan, Ronald, 215, 229, 271
Renehan, Martin, 145, 183–84
Richmond Enquirer, 21, 31, 41, 45, 54, 56, 61, 113, 118, 134, 348, 336
Richmond Junto, 21, 50–53, 68–76, 83, 92, 109, 114, 122
Richmond Whig, 118, 134, 352
Rip Raps (presidential retreat), 285, 287, 302
Ritchie, Thomas, 21, 54, 60, 69, 73–75, 83–84, 94, 111, 114, 122, 134, 182, 295, 355
Rives, William Cabell, 112, 122–23, 156, 160, 162–64, 175–76, 181, 187–89, 277, 411; Rives amendment, 163–64, 165, 169
Roane, Spencer, 21, 51–54
Rochelle, Martha (“Mattie,” John Tyler Jr.’s wife), 119, 231–32, 307, 352–53, 371
Rockefeller, Nelson, 415
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 229, 271
Roosevelt, James I., 243
Roosevelt, Theodore, 130, 229, 288, 308
Royall, Anne, 228
Ruffin, Edmund, 141, 377, 389
Russell, William, 172
Rutherfoord, John, 86–87, 93, 162, 165–66, 355
Santa Anna, 312–14, 319, 348
Seager, Robert, 85, 289–90, 327
Seawell, John B., 47, 108
Seawell, Washington, 186
Second Bank of the United States, 3, 49, 52, 115, 161, 206
“Second Missouri Compromise,” 60
Second Party System, 124, 293
Seddon, James A., 405–6
Select Committee on the Currency, 156–62
Semple, James A. (husband of Letitia Tyler), 119, 229, 234, 350, 372, 383
Senate Journal, 115–18
Sergeant, John, 170–71, 174, 177
Seward, William H., 188, 207
Sherwood Forest (Tyler farm), 303, 334, 336, 343–47, 350, 353, 356–61, 364–65, 369–90, 403, 409–14
Shields, Anne Marot, 14
Short, William, 354, 388–89
slavery, 5–6, 12–13, 210; British abolition of, 275, 314–17, 329–31; colonization as a solution, 119–21, 226, 281; and the crisis over Missouri’s entry into the Union, 57–62; JT’s sale of Ann Eliza, 78–81, 388; JT’s view of, 5–6, 20–21, 392–97, 400–6; paternalism, 79–80, 345–47
Smith, Adam, 23–24, 56
Smith, Ashbel, 315
Smith, Francis, 268–69, 280
Smith, O. J., 265–66
Southard, Samuel L., 1, 131, 152
Southern Review, 189
Spencer, John Canfield, 51, 188, 255–56, 272, 293–94, 298–300, 379
spoils system, 91, 135–36, 207, 292
Sprague, Peleg, 267
states’ rights, 6, 54, 61, 67, 111–16, 122–28, 138–42, 147–48, 181, 186–87, 204–5, 238, 294–96, 377; Democrats, 407; ideology, 3, 27, 50, 84, 113, 141, 204, 211–12, 393, 407, 413; Judge Tyler’s views, 18–21; party, 179, 189, 212, 216, 224; Whigs, 156, 160–65, 198, 286
Stevenson, Andrew, 30, 37–38, 354
Stillwell, Silas M., 297
Stockton, Robert F., 323, 335–36
Stuart, Alexander H. H., 169–71
Sumner, Charles, 395
Sumter, Fort, 402, 407, 409
Sydnor, Charles, 12
Taliaferro, John, 172
Tallmadge, James, 57–61
Tallmadge, Nathaniel P., 1, 156
Taney, Roger B., 128, 343, 395
Tappan, Arthur, 120–21
Tappan, Benjamin, 152, 367–68
tariff bill, 56, 93, 236, 243; “Little Tariff” bill, 237, 239, 256
Tariff of Abominations, 109–10
Taylor, Creed, 29
Taylor, John, of Caroline, 71
Taylor, Zachary, 134
Tazewell, Littleton W., 71, 81–92, 95–96, 112–14, 127–29, 133, 210–13, 263; and states’ rights, 81, 128; death of, 391
Texas, annexation of, 5, 147, 289–91, 300, 315, 318, 327, 329, 332–41, 348, 365–66, 392, 398, 401; re-annexation, 312, 321; “safety-valve thesis,” 321, 329, 400
Thompson, Smith, 299
Thompson, Waddy, 186, 314–16
Tidewater Virginia, 25, 30, 36–37, 71, 74, 79, 85–87, 112; climate, 105, 283, 357–59; elites from, 5, 11–14, 16–17, 33, 99, 120, 145; planters, 104–5, 345, 389
Tippecanoe, 1, 3, 124, 127, 332
tobacco, 12, 145, 304, 381, 390; on board Creole, 259; production vs. wheat, 16, 104, 347
Townshend, Charles, 213
Truman, Harry, 130
Tucker, Henry St. George, 27, 145
Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley, 119, 127, 132, 137, 141–49, 153, 159, 163, 165–66, 179–89, 204–220, 223–24, 257; and states’ rights, 142, 148, 165, 181, 204, 216, 224, 296
Turner, Nat (Turner’s Rebellion), 111, 119, 346
Tustin, Septimus, 284
Tyler, Alice (daughter of JT), 78, 230, 234, 339, 350, 354, 372–73; death of, 382–83
Tyler, David Gardiner (“Gardie,” son of JT), 359–60, 369, 374–76, 384, 403
Tyler, Elizabeth (“Lizzy,” daughter of JT), 67, 78, 103, 229–33, 283, 303, 349–50, 369–73, 377; death of, 370
Tyler General Committee, 295, 297
Tyler, Henry (ancestor of JT), 12, 21
Tyler, John (JT), 4, 8, 17; attitude toward slavery, 5–6, 20–21, 78–81, 392–97, 400–6; childhood of, 7–8, 22, 191; college attendance at William and Mary, 22–25, 27–29, 56, 224; as consumed by politics, 7–8, 26, 37, 65, 67, 81, 97–98, 107, 121, 241, 353, 410; devotion to the South and Virginia, 5–9, 20, 42, 50, 93, 109, 116, 184, 342, 392; “Female Education” as his college oration, 25; financial woes of, 35, 57, 77–81, 117, 302–4, 349, 360–63, 389–90; generational home of, 14, 29, 34–35, 66–67, 77, 104–8, 191, 303; hostility toward the British, 14–15, 36; ill health of, 7, 22, 59, 62–63, 64–65, 86–87, 124, 325, 403; loss of his father, 34; loss of his mother, 22–23; marriage to Letitia Christian, 34–36; marriage to Julia Gardiner, 302–11, 322–41, 349–50; meals of, 45–46; death of, 411–12
—legal career of: apprenticeship of with his father, 28; case of before the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, 29–30; influence of Jefferson on, 29, 72, 77, 90; law career as a means to a career in politics, 30–31; legal education and preparation for the bar, 27–29; participation of in moot courts, 29; passing of the bar exam, 28–29; studies of under the direction of Edmund Randolph, 28–29
—political career of, 48–49; absence from family, 7, 36, 47, 63, 64, 95–108, 373, 376; activities of as a congressman, 39–46; and the Bonus Bill debate, 49–50, 54–56; circular letters of as a congressman, 45–46, 48, 50, 64–65; “Corporal’s Guard,” 175, 245, 288, 298, 386; and the crisis over Missouri’s admission to the Union, 57–62; election to Congress, 37–38; election to the Virginia House of Delegates, 31; as a foe (obstructionist) of the American System, 56–57, 61–62, 116; and funding for Virginia’s “internal improvements,” 33–34, 49–50, 56, 61, 71–72, 92–93, 121, 226; and the instruction controversy, 31–33, 40, 42; opposition to the national bank and tariffs, 51–53, 55–56; precedents set by, 129–30, 134; resignation from US Senate in 1836, 2, 117–18, 121–22; support for the repeal of the Compensation Act, 40–45; third-party movement, 141, 175, 220, 227, 283–301, 310, 338, 359
Tyler, John Alexander (“Aleck,” son of JT), 369–70, 374–75, 384, 404
Tyler, John Jr. (son of JT), 57, 78, 97, 102–4, 119, 127, 187, 196, 231–32, 302, 307, 324, 335, 350–53, 359–60, 371–74; and alcohol abuse, 352, 371
Tyler, John Sr. (judge; father of JT), 13–19, 21–25, 27–30, 33; as governor of Virginia, 28; loss of his wife, 22; and states’ rights, 18–19; death of, 34
Tyler, Julia Gardiner (daughter of JT), 370, 375
Tyler, Lachlan (son of JT), 370
Tyler, Letitia (“Letty,” daughter of JT), 65, 102, 229, 369, 371–73, 382–83; as White House hostess, 336–37,
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner (son of JT), 20, 78, 148, 172, 371, 373, 377–78, 386
Tyler, Mary (daughter of JT), 47, 81, 229; education of, 100–3, death of, 369
Tyler, Pearl (last child of JT), 390, 404, 410–11, 414
Tyler, Robert (son of JT), 47, 102–3
Tyler, Robert Fitzwalter (son of JT), 384
Tyler, Tazewell (son of JT), 78, 82, 230, 234, 350, 363, 369–74, 382–85
Tyler, Wat (brother of JT), 21, 23, 37, 66, 357, 379
Upshur, Abel P., 29, 165–67, 179–82, 216–17, 223–26, 237, 244, 252, 277, 379; as adviser to JT, 141–42, 186, 189, 204–7; and states’ rights, 142, 148, 165, 181–82, 204, 296; and Texas annexation, 315–333, 366, 367; death of, 324
US Constitution, 4, 43, 49–50, 54, 60, 115–124, 130–31, 138–44, 152, 167–68, 238–48, 270, 296, 329, 341, 394; Article I, 18, 116, 340; Article II, 129, 279; Article IV, 58, 248, 257, 342; ratification of, 18, 31, 61; violation of, 68, 91–92
Van Buren, Martin, 1, 4, 73, 82–83, 118, 122–25, 128, 136–37, 223, 227, 265, 278, 288, 294–304, 312, 328–33, 337, 367, 393; Independent Treasury plan, 122, 163, 137, 144, 156–57, 185, 211, 219–20; as minister to England, 92; as secretary of state, 84
Van Ness, John Peter, 343
Van Zandt, Isaac, 312–14, 318–20, 328, 366
Victoria (queen of England), 263
Virginia Colonization Society, 119–21, 317
Virginia Resolutions, 18, 404
“Virginia School,” 19
Vox Populi, Vox Dei principle, 44
Waldron, Richard, 304, 307–9
Walker, Leroy P., 409
Walker, Robert J., 321–22, 329, 340, 400
Waller, William (son-in-law of JT), 229, 232–33, 357, 400
Waller, William (grandson of JT), 399–400
Walworth, Reuben H., 299
War of 1812, 21, 34, 36–37, 48, 51, 55, 68–69, 85, 118, 177, 188, 263, 273; JT’s role in, 36–37; Virginia’s response to, 34
Washington Daily Madisonian, 163, 176–77, 184, 217, 229, 235, 250–54, 262, 310, 318, 328
Washington Daily National Intelligencer, 3, 133, 163, 188, 217, 257, 266, 284, 332, 366
Washington Globe, 118, 283, 285–86, 301, 308, 321, 328, 332
Wealth of Nations, The (Smith), 23, 56
Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 270, 277, 279–80, 302, 313, 318, 360, 398
Webster, Daniel, 1, 4, 39, 88, 126–39, 149–54, 170, 174, 177–88, 200, 205–10, 217–20, 242, 247–81, 289–330, 360, 379, 398
Webster, Fletcher, 126–27
Weed, Thurlow, 187–88, 217
West Point (US Military Academy), 399–400
White, Hugh Lawson, 118, 148–49, 158
White, John, 152
White Sulphur Springs, 354–56, 379
Whittle, Conway, 98, 363, 387, 390
Wickham, John, 29–30
Wickliffe, Charles A., 179, 188, 341, 348, 361, 367
Wilkens, Jim, 145
William and Mary, College of, 13, 30, 142, 364, 379; JT’s education, 22–25, 27–29, 56, 224; John Tyler Jr.’s education, 104, 196; Robert Tyler’s education, 103, 195
Wilmot Proviso, 392, 394
Wiltse, Charles, 326–27
Wirt, William, 29
Wise, Henry A., 145–153, 156–66, 172, 176–82, 198, 204–5, 209–10, 229, 242, 245, 288, 298, 312, 326–27, 333, 379, 384, 395–97, 408; conspiracy theory, 160; and states’ rights, 146, 148, 179, 181, 204
Wise, John, 145
Wood, Fernando, 304
Wood, Gordon, 15
Woodburn, 37–38, 47, 57, 63, 65–66
Woodbury, Levi, 249–52
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, 6
Wythe, George, 13, 24