He first entered the House of Representatives as a Jeffersonian Democrat in 1816, and he resigned from the Senate twenty years later after his state legislature ordered him to support Benton against Clay.
He first entered the House of Representatives as a Jeffersonian Democrat in 1816, and he resigned from the Senate twenty years later after his state legislature ordered him to support Benton against Clay. He turned to the Whigs, but his veto of Clay's bank bill as President led his entire cabinet, except Daniel Webster, to resign, after which he made Calhoun his secretary of state. FTP, name this President, who returned to Virginia after a term which saw the annexation of Texas, having gained office on the death of William Henry Harrison.
He first entered the House of Representatives as a Jeffersonian Democrat in 1816, and he resigned from the Senate twenty years later after his state legislature ordered him to support Benton against Clay.
John {Tyler}