Kathy, not only was President John Tyler burned in effigy in front of the White House by his own Whig Party, but the whole affair was organized by Henry Clay, Speaker of the House.  They threw Tyler out of their corrupt, mercantilist, rent-seekers party whose platform was political plunder and nothing else.   Corporate welfare financed by protectionist tariffs and a central bank was their only real concern.  This is one reason why Ivan Eland ranked Tyler as the best president in American history in his book, Recarving Rushmore. 

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