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| John Tyler: Early Life John Tyler was born at his father's Greenway plantation just west of Charles City, Virginia, on March 29, 1790, the sixth child and second son born to John and Mary Armistead Tyler; one sister and one brother came after him. The senior John Tyler, a close friend of Thomas Jefferson, owned a tobacco plantation of over a thousand acres, tended by dozens of slaves. When John was seven, his mother died from a stroke. He attended local schools until age twelve, when he entered the preparatory branch of the College of William and Mary. Three years later, he entered the collegiate program, and graduated at age seventeen. He then studied law under his father and an attorney cousin, and was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1809. His father became Governor of Virginia that same year and both men moved to Richmond, where John Jr. joined a law firm headed by Edmund Randolph. John Tyler inherited Greenway upon his father's death in 1813 and called it home until selling it in 1829. The main plantation house still stands, but it and the property around it are privately owned. See Also |
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