Tyler was formally expelled from the Whig Party, to which his ties had always been tenuous. Like Andrew Johnson (who never became a Republican), he was elected to balance the ticket of a party he never really belonged in.https://twitter.com/TimothyNoah1/status/1207738317615378432 …
Parties didn't start really taking seriously the task of choosing VPs as potential presidents until 1944.
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I was just making a stupid observation. As ever.
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