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Tyler never ran for president. He ran for Vice-president with Harrison running as the presidential candidate. The opposing presidential candidate was the incumbent president, Martin Van Buren. The incumbent Vice-president was Richard "Dick" Johnson.

He was never popular with his party but was picked by Jackson to run with Van Buren

and became even less popular in the South when he took a slave girl as his common-law wife and had children by her. The party refused to nominate him again, but they could not agree on anyone else, so they did not have a vice-presidential nominee. One presumes that Johnson would have stayed in office if Van Buren had been re-elected, so you might say that Johnson was Tyler's opponent.

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