If you know someone with the middle or last name "Tyler," there's a good chance he or she may be a descendant of President John Tyler. I say this not out of any genealogical savvy but by the law of probability. You see, Tyler holds the distinction of fathering the most children of any U.S. president.

As it happened, Tyler stumbled into the presidency as vice president to William Henry Harrison. Harrison died after just one month in office, paving the way for Tyler to assume t ...

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