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OOC: the POD is that Harrison picked James Barbour as his vice presidential candidate instead of Tyler—I’ll let you guys decide how this made history different

There were rumblings at the time that the Whigs were going to nominate John Tyler for VP, but 2 days before the convention William Harrison broke precedent and declared his support for one of the chairs of the convention, a man named James Barbour. After Harrison’s untimely death, Barbour became President. How would history have been different if Tyler had been picked?
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