- The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. It emerged as the main political rival of the Democratic Party in the mid-1850s.
- John Tyler (allthetropes.org)
John Tyler (aka “His Accidency”) was the first Vice-President to inherit the Presidency. He was a longtime Democratic-Republican who was elected to the Vice Presidency on the Whig ticket, so he was rather unpopular with his former political supporters and had a tenuous relationship with his predecessor during his short vice-presidency.