Senator (Class 1) from Virginia 1827–1836        Served alongside: Littleton Tazewell, William Cabell Rives, Benjamin W. Leigh

Succeeded byWilliam Cabell Rives

Party political offices

New political party

Whig nominee for Vice President of the United States 1836,¹ 1840

Succeeded byTheodore Frelinghuysen

Preceded byHenry Lee

Nullifier nominee for Vice President of the United StatesEndorsed 1836

Party dissolved

Academic offices

Preceded byGeorge Washington (1799)

Chancellor of the College of William & Mary 1859–1862

Succeeded byHugh Blair Grigsby (1871)

Notes and references

1. The Whig Party ran regional candidates in 1836. Tyler ran in the Southern states, and Francis Granger ran in the Northern states.

