Not to be a dead horse, but a lot of presidents are forgotten faces.

This week we've got another one, John Tyler.

Tyler's call to the White House came when he was napping on the job.

According to a popular legend, in the dead of night, someone came to Virginia to tell

him that President William Harrison was dead from pneumonia.

In a split second, Tyler's hopes to be a low-key vice president were crushed.

He'd have to pack up and head out to Washington, DC, you know, to lead America.

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Today, we're going to look back at the 10th president that no one knows much about, aside

from his catchy campaign slogan, Typical New and Tyler 2.

Just a month into office in 1841, President William Henry Harrison died suddenly, leaving

John Tyler pretty unprepared to take over.

I mean, he had zero plans for how to handle the nation's highest office.

And honestly, Tyler was too bland to drastically change the presidency like some of his peers.

It would, though, drastically change him.

Four years of being commander in chief turned the stuffy Virginian into a man who drank

champagne, flirted with socialites, and danced until dawn.

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