Tippecanoe and Tyler too

Cultural  

1. A slogan from the presidential election of 1840. “Tippecanoe” was the Whig presidential candidate William Henry Harrison, a hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. John Tyler was the vice presidential candidate.

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Example Sentences

Both men painted in the "Mad '40s," an era that was ushered in with the cry of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" and went out with the California gold rush.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is the ball, a rolling on For Tippecanoe and Tyler too.'

From Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman by Griffis, William Elliot

Log Morse cabin songs were heard, with shouts for "Tippecanoe, and Tyler too."

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin

For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too, And with them we'll beat little Van.

From 'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West by Van Cleve, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark

"Tippecanoe and Tyler too" rang through the land as the whig watchword for the campaign.

From History of the United States, Volume 3 by Andrews, Elisha Benjamin