Whig · 1841–1845
John Tyler
A states’-rights man on a Whig ticket. Vetoed a new bank and pushed Texas annexation.
John Tyler was president 1841–1845. The party color on the chart is Whig. Early presidents are not forced into today’s party names. The placement note is: A states’-rights man on a Whig ticket. Vetoed a new bank and pushed Texas annexation.
The dot is economics +24 and authority +28. That is right of center on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Color and place are allowed to disagree. Theodore Roosevelt sits left of Grover Cleveland on economics.
What was said, and what the administration did, are filed separately. Said: He had run as a Whig. Done: He vetoed the Whig bank and annexed Texas. The party expelled him. Where those two sentences pull apart, the dot follows the governing record, not the slogan.
The nearest other presidents on these two numbers are William McKinley (1897–1901, +28 / +32) and Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893, +22 / +22). A small distance can join people who would have disliked each other. The chart is a compression, not a claim that they were alike.
Presidents are not placed with the Voteview roll-call score used for the current Congress. Two axes cannot carry a war, a court, a tariff, and a civil-rights record as separate facts.