Last Living Grandson of 10th US President John Tyler Dies At 96
Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the last living grandson of the 10th President John Tyler, has died at the age of 96.
One hundred eighty years after his grandfather served in the White House, Harrison died of dementia in a Virginia nursing home, according to The Richmond Times-Dispatch. He died five years after his last remaining sibling, Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr., who died in September 2020 at age 95.
His death marks the end of a direct familial link to a president who served before the Civil War.
President Tyler served from 1841 to 1845 following the death of President William Henry Harrison, to whom he had been vice president.
Following his term in office, Tyler became an elected member of the Confederate Congress of the Confederate States of America in 1861.
Harrison was born in 1928, 138 years after his grandfather was born. At Harrison’s birth, his father, Lyon Sr., was 75 years old, and his grandfather had been deceased for 66 years. The president was 63 when he welcomed Lyon Sr. He had a total of 15 children when he died in 1862 at 71 years old.
