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John Tyler

John Tyler

1790 CE1862 CE · Washington, D.C.

John Tyler was the 10th President, serving from 1841 to 1845, initially as a Whig. He was the first Vice President to succeed to the presidency on the death of a president, following William Henry Harrison, establishing the precedent that the successor becomes full president. His term concluded with the annexation of Texas.

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Washington, D.C.

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About Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is the area where the teacher Tara Brach founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington in 1998, one of the larger Western vipassanā (insight meditation) communities, drawing on the Theravāda-derived insight tradition.

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