Image John Tyler was the first vice president to succeed a dead president ... In the election of 1840, the Whig Party chose William Henry Harrison, a former governor of the Indiana Territory ...

The grandson of the 10th President of the United States, John Tyler, has died at 96 — 180 years after his grandfather was last in the White House. Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the son of President ...

And Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 when that father was 75 years old and the presidential grandfather had been dead for more ... when President William Henry Harrison died in office.