President John Tyler wasn’t supposed to be President of the United States, serving as Vice-President to President Harrison. That said his actions as Harrison lay dying established a precedent for how presidential succession would proceed for generations to come until the 22nd Amendment was ratified in 1967.

Despite his leadership in tumultuous times, President Tyler retains the dubious distinction of being the only United States President to be buried under a flag different than that of the United States of America,.

After serving as President, Tyler sided with his native Virginia during the American Civil War. He died during the height of the conflict in 1862, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered that Tyler be buried with the standard of another nation draped over his coffin (albeit a rebellious state).

President John Tyler is also the only United States president to have been a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America which broke off from the Protestant Episcopal Church in America from 1861 until the Confederacy’s unconditional surrender in 1865.