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Tuesday, January 25
 
Why Historians are REALLY good for
In class today I picked up this really interesting tidbit: John Tyler, who was born in 1790 and who was President from 1841-45, has, get this, a grandson who currently lives in Richmond and is around 80 years old.

It turns out President Tyler is the only President to marry while in office (the inspiration for the American President???). His wife died, and he married Julia Gardner, then 24 years old and 30 years his junior. He had seven children with her (after having 8 children with his first wife), the last when he was 70. One of them was Lyon Gardiner Tyler, who was the President of William and Mary, and who married late in life and had a son when he was around 70, in about 1925. Apparently (according to my Professor) that guy is still kicking and living somewhere in Richmond.

Now really, it's that kind of interesting minutiae that people really want historians around for, not for the "origins of the progressive party" stuff that historians generally think is interesting.
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