Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the last living grandson of 10th U.S. President John Tyler, has died at 96, the end of a link back to the distant American past.
John Tyler served as president from 1841 to 1845, a vice president who became president when William Henry Harrison died three weeks after his inauguration. Tyler left office a year before the Mexican-American War began in 1846.
How did a president born in 1790 have a grandson who lived until 2025? Harrison Ruffin Tyler’s father was 75 when Harrison was born, and his grandfather, President Tyler, was 63 when Harrison’s dad was born. That means three generations were able to span 235 years.