- And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
- 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.