Robert Tyler (Confederate Register of the Treasury)

{{Short description|Confederate Register of the Treasury (1816–1877)}}

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| name = Robert Tyler

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| image = RobertTyler.jpg

| office2 = Secretary to the President of the United States

| predecessor2 = Henry Huntington Harrison

| successor2 = Joseph Knox Walker

| term_start2 = 1841

| term_end2 = March 4, 1845

| office3 = Confederate Register of the Treasury

| predecessor3 = Position established

| successor3 = Position abolished

| term_start3 = 1861

| term_end3 = 1865

| birth_date = {{birth date|1816|9|9}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1877|12|3|1816|9|9}}

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| spouse = {{marriage|Priscilla Cooper|September 12, 1839}}

| children = 9

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Robert Tyler (September 9, 1816 – December 3, 1877) was the eldest son of John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States, and Letitia Christian Tyler.{{Cite book |last1=Millett |first1=Wesley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZEhH11wVm-gC&dq=%22Robert+Tyler%22+%22john+tyler%22&pg=PA73 |title=The Rebel and the Rose: James A. Semple, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and the Lost Confederate Gold |last2=White |first2=Gerald |date=2008 |publisher=Cumberland House Publishing |isbn=978-1-58182-669-2 |language=en}} He served as the Confederate Register of the Treasury during the American Civil War.{{Cite news |date=1864-05-22 |title=Organization the Government of the Confederate States |pages=1 |work=Montgomery Daily Mail |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/montgomery-daily-mail-organization-the-g/131363499/ |access-date=2023-09-07}} Previously, Tyler served as private secretary for his father's presidential administration.{{Cite web |date=2010-09-06 |title=Robert Tyler |url=https://scrcwiki.libraries.wm.edu/robert-tyler |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=Special Collections Knowledgebase |language=en-US}} In later life he served as the editor of a newspaper in Montgomery, Alabama.{{Cite book |last=Tyler |first=Lyon Gardiner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrVYAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Robert+Tyler%22+Montgomery&pg=PA687 |title=The Letters and Times of the Tylers |date=1885 |publisher=Whittet & Shepperson |pages=687 |language=en}}

His wife, Priscilla, served in place of the First Lady of the United States from September 10, 1842, to June 26, 1844, between the death of her mother-in-law and President Tyler's remarriage to Julia Gardiner Tyler.{{cite web |url=http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=10 |title=Letitia Tyler Biography :: National First Ladies' Library |website=Firstladies.org |date=December 28, 1907 |access-date=June 16, 2016 |archive-date=September 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930130947/http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=10 |url-status=dead }} Together Robert and Priscilla Tyler had nine children, only six of whom would live to adulthood. {{Cite journal |last=Leahy |first=Christopher J. |date=2012 |title=Playing Her Greatest Role: Priscilla Cooper Tyler and the Politics of the White House Social Scene, 1841–44 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1038370038 |journal=The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography |volume=120 |issue=3 |pages=237–269|id={{ProQuest|1038370038}} }}