Tyler made 6 regular vetoes plus 4 pocket vetoes for a total of 10.
John Tyler
John Tyler was the first to have a veto overridden.
President John Tyler
John Tyler in 1845. He had vetoed a bill forbidding him to allocate money for Revenue cutters and steamers withoutrt Congressional approval.
The most notable thing Tyler did was to veto the bill to re-charter the bank of the United States.
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John Quincy Adams headed a committee to impeach Tyler for his veto of a bill to establish a new national bank.
US presidents do not make laws-only the Congress can do that. Tyler was most famous for blocking a law that would have set up another bank of the US.
Henry Clay , as well as Daniel Webster and John Quincy Adams were prominent leaders of the Whig party in 1840.
After Tyler vetoed a bill to re-establish a bank of the United States, he was expelled from his Whig party. The banking bill had been pushed through Congress by the Whigs and re-establishing the bank had been one of the Whigs' long-time goals. The veto made them furious.
To override a President's veto Congress needs to have 2/3 or more of the vote.