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- Title
The Constitutional Crisis that Wasn't.
- Authors
CALLAHAN, DAVID P.
- Abstract
John Tyler in 1841,(Library of Congress) The death of William Henry Harrison.(Library of Congress) Secretary of State Daniel Webster.(Library of Congress) Tyler receiving news of Harrison's death.(Library of Congress) Brown's Indian Queen Hotel.(Library of Congress) Henry Clay in 1840.(Library of Congress) Henry Clay addressing the Senate in 1850.(Library of Congress) Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina.(Library of Congress) The U.S. Capitol in 1839.(Library of Congress) Clay's decision to support Tyler's successionwas motivated by his "confident hopes" that a "PresidentTyler" would support a recharter of the national bank.27 Tyler himself contributed to Clay's misconceptions abouthis support for the bank. Although many in theopposition resisted any concession of full presidentialpower to a Whig president like Tyler, Calhoun realizedthat supporting Tyler's interpretation of the successionclause might help draw the Virginian toward theDemocrats' position on the bank.33 Perhaps no other American politician was betterpositioned to understand John Tyler than Calhoun. In anongoing bid for Clay's support, Tyler cleverly masked hisentrenched aversion for Clay's bank and he certainlynever used the word "veto" in the presence of pro-bankWhigs.29 The president's latest communication suddenly revivedClay's old worries that Tyler's Jeffersonian principlesmight obstruct his American System policies.
- Subjects
ELECTIONS; PARTISANSHIP; PRESIDENTS of the United States
- Publication
Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, 2021, Vol 129, Issue 2, p123
- ISSN
0042-6636
- Publication type
Article