t I. The Accession of ?Tyler Too? Harrison was a figure head real leaders were Webster and Clay- Harrison died of pneumonia He didn?t like the dictator tactics of Jackson- Tyler was a ex-Democrat Was a Whig but embraced the Jeffersonian states? righters- at odds with majority of his party He believed opposite of pro-bank, pro-tariff- pro-internal improvements II. John Tyler: A President Without a Party The Whig platform started with the Whig Congress passing a law to end the independent treasury- Tyler signed, Clay drew up a bill for a new Bank of the United States- Tyler vetoed it