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JOHN TYLER 57 tirement, however, was of short duration, for in 1823 he was again elected to the Virginia legis lature. Here, as a friend to the candidacy of Wil liam H. Crawford for the presidency, he disap proved the attacks upon the congressional caucus begun by the legislature of Tennessee in the inter ests of Andrew Jackson. The next year he was nominated to fill the vacancy in the United States senate created by the death of John Taylor; but Littleton W. Tazewell was elected over him. He opposed the attempt to remove William and Mary college to Richmond, and was afterward made suc cessively rector and chancellor of the college, which prospered signally under his management. In December, 1825, he was chosen by the legislature to the governorship of Virginia, and in the follow ing year he was re-elected by a unanimous vote. A new division of parties was now beginning to show itself in national politics. The administration of John Quincy Adams had pronounced itself in favor of what was then, without much regard to history, described as the "American system" of government banking, high tariffs, and internal im provements. Those persons who were inclined to a loose construction of the constitution were soon drawn to the side of the administration, while the strict constructionists were gradually united in op position. Many members of Crawford s party, under