Tippecanoe and Tyler too

With Levi Morton as his running mate, he also took a note from his grandfather’s 1840 campaign slogan – “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” – recasting it as “Tippecanoe and Morton Too.”

In 1840, John Tyler was the running mate — and the second half of the campaign slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” — of Whig Party presidential candidate William Henry Harrison.

The same Democratic newspapers that had pilloried the Whig presidential ticket of “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” defended Tyler and attacked Botts.

As one observer noted, “There was more rhyme than reason” to the famous campaign slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.”

They ran on a ticket known as “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” — a slogan so catchy that it is still remembered 170 years later.