John Tyler: President of the Confederate States of America

What if John Tyler, upon Virginias secession somehow takes up the Presidency of the CSA a month after Virginia joins, how would this effect the political landscape?
 
When the American Civil War began in 1861, Tyler sided with the Confederate government, and won election to the Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death.

Would Tyler want to be President of CSA, after USA though?
 
When the American Civil War began in 1861, Tyler sided with the Confederate government, and won election to the Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death.

Would Tyler want to be President of CSA, after USA though?

With his past experience as a US President, I am sure he would have support.

Assuming he decides to bypass the House and go right for the Grey House, he may think himself the only experienced enough Confederate to lead the new nation
 
The problem is that Davis was chosen as provisional president when Virgina had not yet seceded--Tyler was therefore not eligible at that time. (The only serious possible rivals to Davis were all Georgians.) And it seems very unlikely that the provisional president and vice-president (Stephens) will not be confirmed by the Confederate electors in November 1861--as was done unanimously in OTL. Even if Davis had somehow died in the interval, Stephens would probably be confirmed as president--don't switch horses in mid-stream, etc.
 
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Japhy

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The problem is that Davis was chosen as provisional president when Virgina had not yet seceded--Tyler was therefore not eligible at that time. (The only serious possible rivals to Davis were all Georgians.) And it seems very unlikely that the provisional president and vice-president (Stephens) will not be confirmed by the Confederate electors in November 1861--as was done unanimously in OTL. Even if Davis had somehow died in the interval, Stephens would probably be confirmed as president--don't switch horses ijn mid-stream, etc.

I was going to bring up the election of 1861 as the only possible option. You'd need to pick someone absolutely horrific to be provisional president for that sort of thing to happen. The issue being morality aside, very few of the potential leaders of the Confederacy could do a bad enough job to warrant that. A fire-eater could theoretically take the job but then prove to be overly troublesome as fire-eaters were ought to do, but odds are he couldn't be elected by the Provisional Congress in the first place. And of course that kind of rejection doesn't help Tyler who is for practical purposes a Fire-Eater / Fringe loser who's been in the wilderness for decades.

And mind you, if Virginia is going to get to pick one of their own to lead, the man to go with in their eyes is Robert M. T. Hunter, who many whispered would be the leader of the Southern Confederacy before the war, under the assumption that Virginia would assume its natural leadership role at the start.
 
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