president of the united states, so she learned she became the first lady. she had another terrible stroke, and her husband goes into morning, and then he meets another young lovely in her 20 s. i think of her as the madonna of first ladies. she posed as a model at a time that was frowned upon, by all accounts was bewitching. andhere were 90 slaves, they were her supervision. julia lobbied for her husband, and she supported him tremendously in everything she did. untimely death, a secret marriage, and outsize personality are stories of the women we examined tonight. good evening, and welcome to the season series of first ladies. william henry harrison was in office, and a month later, he dies. theearn about time, we have chair of the history department, and she has been many times ons this series. nice to see you again. school children have all grown up with the phrase, tippecanoe tyler too. he was elected at age of 68, a record no president beat until ronald reagan. who
or is meaningful or not. she s certainly being out there actively supporting her husband s position on annexization. she s talking to everyone she can about it. she s writing a great deal about it. she is holding all of the social events at the white house in order to influence that piece of legislation. so if we re talking about favorite lady as being involved in a matter of national public policy and being involved explicitly so, i think maybe you can take that to julia tyler. here s a question about first ladies and their perceived influence. jennifer sherman asked on twitter tyler having gotten to washington as first lady of the united states, secret service lingo, i think, believed she had a lot of influence rightly so. based on first lay dwris seen thus far, do you think they all felt this way, they were influential women as spouses of their influential husbands? i m not so sure all of them wanted to be. that s the first thing. she s perhaps the first who really w
she s supports that. but whether or not she has influence over any particular congressman, i m not so sure about that. do you have an opinion about that? she certainly believes she has a lot of influence. i m with dr. medford, there are were much more complicated in the political area of the texas annexation issue that julia tyler would solve, especially the months after the election. people know james polk will be the next president. the treaty to annex the treaty to annex texas had already been defeated by the senate. and they have come up with a new, not terribly constitutional way to accomplish it if they re going to accomplish it at all so they have to go through the machinations of the joint revolutions through december 1844. but that involves much broader political questions and in terms of where people are from in this political realignment and of america that s going on at the time. wigs are breaking down. obviously, the republicans have long broken down. ant