President John Quincy Adams (1843)
President John Quincy Adams was born in 1767 and was one of the rare kinds who we could say was farsighted and underrated for the most part. He had many things going differently for him as he was not a founding father – a first for an elected president, Adams was also the first son of a president to be elected into office and the first president to marry someone who was not born in the US. Adams might not be the first president to have his photo taken, but we can safely say he was the first president to be photographed. Philip Haas took the daguerreotype pictured here in 1843 while Adams was in his Massachusetts home. But sad to say, not much is known of this figure nor of the photo that was taken of it.
President John Quincy Adams
President John Tyler (c. 1845)
President John Tyler will never be forgotten in history not because he was the tenth President of the United States of United but how and why he became the president. Born in 1790, Tyler served as the Vice President to President William Henry Harrison but soon became the president after Harrison died just a month into becoming president. As a result of this, Tyler became the first VP to get the top position. However, due to the circumstances that led to him becoming president, a lot of critics nicknamed him “His Accidency” because they thought he got the position through an accident. Interestingly, the US Presidential history catalog does not rank the reign of President Tyler with high esteem, possibly for the fact that he wasn’t “truly elected.” However, there is one important fact you would love to hear…Tyler still has a living grandchild alive to this day…he is 93 years old, Harrison Ruffin Tyler.
President John Tyler
