Zachary Taylor - Wikipedia
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850.Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general and becoming a national hero for his victories in the Mexican–American War.As a result, he won election to the …
Zachary Taylor - HISTORY
Oct 29, 2009 · Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) served in the army for some four decades, commanding troops in the War of 1812, the Black Hawk War (1832) and the second of the Seminole Wars (1835-1842). He...
Look Back | Death of Zachary Taylor solved - Courier-Journal
Jul 8, 2014 · A team of Kentucky medical examiners concluded yesterday that Taylor was not poisoned with arsenic or other compounds, as Rising and others have suggested, laying to rest speculation that he was...
How an Outsider President Killed a Political Party: Zachary Taylor ...
Jun 2, 2016 · A similar scenario unfolded in 1848, when General Zachary Taylor, a roughhewn career soldier who had never even voted in a presidential election, conquered the Whig Party. A look back at what...
Zachary Taylor: Latest News, Top Stories & Analysis - POLITICO
Zachary Taylor wins battles against Mexican army, May 8, 1846. By ANDREW GLASS. 05/08/2014 12:04 AM EDT
Zachary Taylor: Impact and Legacy - Miller Center
Zachary Taylor's presidency was too short-lived to have substantially impacted the office or the nation. He is not remembered as a great President. Most historians believe that he was too nonpolitical in a day when politics, parties, and presidential leadership demanded close ties with political operatives. Taylor's "outsider" philosophy kept ...
Zachary Taylor Event Timeline - The American Presidency Project
Whig candidate General Zachary Taylor defeats Democrat Lewis Cass and former Democratic President Martin Van Buren (candidate of the Free Soil Party). Taylor won 56.2% of the Electoral College and 47.3% of the popular vote. Taylor, at the time of the election still serving in the Army, had been successful in the war with Mexico.
Zachary Taylor - President, Death & Political Party - Biography
Apr 2, 2014 · Known as a national war hero for his battles in the Mexican War, Zachary Taylor served in the U.S. Army for nearly 40 years before he was elected as the 12th president of the United States in...
Zachary Taylor | Biography, Accomplishments, Death, - Britannica
Oct 29, 2024 · Zachary Taylor (born November 24, 1784, Montebello plantation, near Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.—died July 9, 1850, Washington, D.C.) was the 12th president of the United States (1849–50). Elected on the ticket of the Whig Party as a hero of the Mexican-American War (1846–48), he died only 16 months after taking office.
Zachary Taylor: War heroes and conspiracy theory
Mar 27, 2016 · Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank joins historians Catherine Clinton and Joseph Uscinski to talk about military hero Zachary Taylor and the assassination theories that swirled around his...