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 ...

Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the last living grandson of President John Tyler, born 83 years after his grandfather left the White House in 1845, has died.

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.