10th U.S. President John Tyler’s grandson says Newt Gingrich is a 'jerk'

[stockholmer]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/72089.html


President John Tyler’s grandson Harrison Tyler, 84, says he’s not impressed with the state of politics today and particularly thinks Newt Gingrich is a “big jerk” for his three marriages.

Incredibly, President Tyler, who was born in 1790 and became the 10th president in 1841, has two grandchildren still alive today. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/72021.html His grandson, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, currently maintains the Tyler presidential home, Sherwood Forest Plantation Foundation in Charles City, Va.

Harrison said he doesn’t spend much time focusing on the 2012 presidential race — “I can’t stand watching television” — but considers himself a conservative. His big problem this election, he said, is with the candidates.

“I don’t really like any of them,” he said in an interview. But Tyler’s especially not a fan of Gingrich, who he dubbed a “big jerk.” “He needs to stick with the same wife, that’s what my mother taught me,” Tyler said. “But that doesn’t seem to happen much today.”

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[onehandle]

1. Wow. President Tyler and his son must have fathered their kids pretty late in life.

Interesting.

[Justice wanted]

2. They did. Tyler had 15 kids. You can see other links about Tyler Grandkids on this site. You

also google or yahoo the story. Tyler Grandchildren still alive. I'm sorry I can't find the link,.

[morningfog]

3. They each had kids late in life with second wives.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092227/US-president-John-Tylers-grandsons-STILL-ALIVE.html

[FrenchieCat]

7. Wow......

Lyon Gardiner Tyler was 36 years older than his wife!

[neverforget]

8. That's crazy!!! And in a world without Viagra too!

[roguevalley]

5. very interesting story. It would be awesome to be able to say your grandpa

was a president no one can get right but was pres anyway.

I had to check my grandpa into the hospital once and had to strike through 19__ and write in 1885. How cool was that? It was awesome. but then, so was my grandpa, Charles Augustus Paxton. YOU RULE, MY SWEET BOY!

[surrealAmerican]

4. Harrison Tyler ...

... I guess he's named after old Tippecanoe.


Good for him!

[rug]

6. They don't make Whigs like they used to.

[yellowcanine]

9. Those Tyler men must have been randy old farts.

[morningfog]

10. Lyon and Harrison are due to have a couple young uns now.

[stockholmer]

12. if either one did, you could have the circumstance during the 2100 AD elections of President Tyler's

87 year-old great grandson/grand-daughter commenting, with the weight of 310 years since the birth of their Presidential great grandfather.

This of course, assumes that there will be an America (as it currently exists) to hold 2100 AD elections.

[NYC Liberal]

11. I honestly thought this was going to be some kind of satire piece.

Wow.

[loyalsister]

13. I wonder what he thinks of the fact that his grandfather was a traitor

Tyler pretended to be a peace broker but ultimately served in the Confederate Congress after having been president.