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Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States and served from March 4, 1849 to July 9, 1850.

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Who influenced Zachary Taylor?

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Zachary Taylor was influenced by his father, Richard Taylor, who was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and set an example of military service for his son. He was also influenced by General Winfield Scott, his senior officer during the Mexican-American War, who Taylor respected and learned from. Additionally, Taylor was influenced by his experiences as a soldier and leader in the Indian Wars and various military campaigns.

Who is Zachary Klopfenstein?

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Zachary Klopfenstein is a musician and singer-songwriter. He gained recognition as a contestant on the reality TV show "American Idol" in 2021. He is known for his soulful voice and heartfelt performances.

Why did Zachary Taylor join the whig party?

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Zachary Taylor joined the Whig Party because he believed in its platform of protective tariffs, centralized government power, and support for industrial development. He also saw the Whigs as a viable political force that could help him secure the presidency. Additionally, Taylor admired the party's leaders, such as Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.

Where did Zachary Taylor get Old Whitey?

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Taylor bought Old Whitey from Capt. George McCall at Fort Smith. McCall had given the horse no name, so it must have been Taylor who named him. See: Letters from the Frontiers, by McCall, pp. 344-345.

What city is named after Zachary Taylor?

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The city named after Zachary Taylor is Taylor, Texas.

What are four words that describe Zachary Taylor?

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Military, disciplined, straightforward, determined

Where is Zachary Taylor buried?

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Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States, is buried in Louisville, Kentucky. His burial site is located in the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, which is part of the Zachary Taylor Historic Site.

Who is Zachary Gordon?

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They say it's Claudia Yuen but it's not true!

What killed Zachary Taylor?

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Zachary Taylor was stressed out of his job as president and on July 4, 1850, Taylor participated in Fourth of July ceremonies and refreshed himself with a pitcher of milk and bowls of cherries and pickles. Dysentery bacteria was spreading in Washington, so there is a chance that the bacteria tainted Taylor's food. Later, Taylor ended up with intestinal cramps, vomiting spells and diarrhoea. At about 10PM, Taylor has frequent spells of bloody diarrhoea and this cycle happened while doctors did whatever they could do for President Taylor, but five days later, late on July 9th, President Taylor died on July 9th, 1850.

There are lingering rumors that Taylor was poisoned by his staff. In 1991, his descendants were told by an historian to exhume Taylor's remains. Taylor's remains were examined and analysed and found low traces of arsenic that were not in enough quantities to kill Taylor. They determined that cholera mombus killed Taylor. So, Taylor was not poisoned by his enemies.

Who ran against Zachary Taylor?

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Lewis Cass was Taylor's Democratic Party opponent.
Lewis Cass.
He ran against Polk.

Was Jefferson Davis the son in law of Zachary Taylor?

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Briefly. Davis married Sarah Knox Taylor on June 17, 1835 in Louisville, Kentucky. But it was a short-lived marriage because she died of malaria three months later.

What did Zachary Taylor do as president?

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  • Taylor opposed the Compromise of 1850 which was an attempt to settle the disputes about allowing slavery in the new territories and to appease the South by tightening the fugitive slave law. The compromise which proved to be failure, was passed after Taylor died.
  • Clayton-Bulwer Treaty signed with Britain.This controversial treaty dealt with joint-control of any canals built across Central America
  • Galphin Claim - scandal concerning kick-backs to Sec. of War Crawford from payments made to Galphin family.

(longer discussion of Taylor and the slavery issues. )

Northerners and Southerners disputed sharply whether the territories wrested from Mexico should be opened to slavery, and some Southerners even threatened secession. Standing firm, Zachary Taylor was prepared to hold the Union together by armed force rather than by compromise. Even though he was a slave-owner, Taylor did not defend slavery or southern sectionalism;

Although Taylor had subscribed to Whig principles of legislative leadership, he was not inclined to be a puppet of Whig leaders in Congress. He acted at times as though he were above parties and politics. Taylor tried to run his administration in the same rule-of-thumb fashion with which he had fought Indians.

Traditionally, people could decide whether they wanted slavery when they drew up new state constitutions. Therefore, several acute side issues: the northern dislike of the slave market operating in the District of Columbia; and the southern demands for a more stringent fugitive slave law.

In February 1850 President Taylor had held a stormy conference with southern leaders who threatened secession. He told them that if necessary to enforce the laws, he personally would lead the Army. Persons "taken in rebellion against the Union, he would hang ... with less reluctance than he had hanged deserters and spies in Mexico." He never wavered.

Then events took an unexpected turn. After participating in ceremonies at the Washington Monument on a blistering July 4, Taylor fell ill; within five days he was dead.
You can't do much in 491 days.

What is Zachary Taylor remembered for?

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Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States as well as a war hero in the Mexican-American War.

How did Zachary Taylor die?

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Zachary Taylor was the twelfth president of the US. He served from 1849 until his death in July of 1850. He contracted a severe fever. His doctors were unsure of the cause, however, it was a stomach related disease.

Who were Zachary Taylor's election opponents?

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Zachery Taylor won the 1848 presidential election defeating Lewis Cass. In the 1848 presidential election Zachery Taylor received 163 electoral votes and Lewis Cass received 127 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Taylor 1,361,393 and Cass 1,223,460.

Millard Fillmore was elected the nation's 12th Vice President in 1848 as the running mate of Zachery Taylor. Millard Fillmore succeeded to the presidency upon the death of Zachary Taylor.

When did Zachary Taylor become president?

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The 12th President of the United States was Zachary Taylor from March 4, 1849 to July 9, 1850, a period of 492 days before he died. Taylor died in office.

What was the campaign issues when Zachary Taylor ran for president?

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Probably the biggest issue of the day had to do with the huge amount of land the United States had acquired over the previous few years and whether or not slavery would be allowed to spread west into the new territories. The new land was acquired through three different sources:

  1. One was the annexation of Texas, which had declared its independence from Mexico about a decade earlier but had been requesting to become part of the United States.
  2. Another was the HUGE part of Mexico that was ceded to the United States for $15,000,000 after Mexico lost the Mexican-American War (Mexico used to border Oregon).
  3. The third was gaining sole possession of the southern half of the Oregon Country in exchange for giving Great Britain sole possession of the northern half. Previously the United States and Great Britain shared possession of the Oregon Country.

Was Abraham Lincoln related to Zachary Taylor?

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Its said that Taylor and Lee were kinsmen, without much further specificity on the precise relationship. Both were born in Virginia, of prominent families with deep roots in the Old Dominion, so they were likely distant cousins. Taylor was a second cousin of James Madison and a descendant of William Brewster, who came over on the Mayflower.

Confederate President Jefferson Davis had been Taylors's son-in-law. When Davis was a young lieutenant in the army Taylor was his commander, and Davis fell in love with Colonel Taylor's daughter Sarah. Taylor discouraged this match because he regretted the hard life his own wife had led, having to make a home for them in one isolated, rough frontier army post after another, distant from civilization and polite society. He did not want that for his daughter, as wife of a young, underpaid junior officer. To overcome this problem Davis resigned from the army, and his much older wealthy half-brother, Joseph Davis, set him up with a plantation in Mississippi, where he took his new bride. Ironically, there she caught malaria and died within a few months.

Taylor's son Richard Taylor was one of only a few men without previous military experience who made it all the way to three star rank as a Confederate Lieutenant General (the others who come to mind are Wade Hampton and Nathan Bedford Forrest). Richard Taylor had served for a time as his father's civilian military secretary on the campaigns in the Mexican War. Richard Taylor was an excellent general and wrote one of the best memoirs of the war.

About fifteen years ago Zachary Taylor was exhumed so his bones could be tested for poison. Some crackpot had foisted a theory that, somehow, in 1851, some evil proto-Confederates had decided to kill Taylor, why was never really satisfactorily explained. This was ten years before the war started and no one saw it coming then, let alone had decided they would be Confederates and that Taylor was a threat to their cause, which did not exist yet. But somehow this theory gained enough traction that they dug up "Old Dad" Taylor, and, unsurprisingly, found no trace of poison in his bones.

What were Zachary Taylor's Accomplishments?

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Life Before the PresidencyBorn into a family of planters in Virginia on November 24, 1784, Zachary Taylor spent his youth in the frontier outpost of Louisville, Kentucky. For most of Zachary's childhood, his Louisville home was a small cabin in the woods. As his family prospered, the cabin became a substantial brick house that Zachary shared with his seven brothers and sisters. By 1800, Taylor's father owned 10,000 acres, town lots in Louisville, and twenty-six slaves.

Although educated, Zachary was a poor student. His handwriting, spelling, and grammar were crude and unrefined throughout his life. Even as a boy, he wanted a career in the military; for a planter's son, it was a respectable alternative to law and the ministry.

Taylor received his first commission as an officer in 1808 and was immediately assigned to command the garrison at Fort Pickering, located in modern-day Memphis. From that moment until his election as President, Taylor was in the military, stationed at a succession of frontier outposts.

In 1810, Taylor married Margaret Mackall Smith, a member of a prominent Maryland family. They eventually had five daughters and one son, but lost two of the daughters at a young age to sickness. As Zachary moved from one wilderness outpost to another in the Mississippi Valley frontier, his family often accompanied him. In 1840, Mrs. Taylor finally settled down in Louisiana when Zachary assumed command of the fort at Baton Rouge. Although a poorly paid career officer, Taylor had parlayed the 300 acres of land given to him by his father into holdings in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi. In 1850, his estate was valued at around $120,000-equivalent to $6 million today.

Indian Fighter Fame

By 1845, Taylor had gained fame as an Indian fighter in the nation's continuing warfare against Native Americans. His service included postings in the present-day states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida, and Texas. Among other Indian battles, he engaged the Sacs, led by Chief Black Hawk, in Illinois in 1832 and the Seminoles in Florida in the late 1830s.

Taylor's willingness to share the hardships of field duty with his men earned him the affectionate nickname "Old Rough and Ready." Although he fought Native Americans in numerous engagements, much of his service was devoted to protecting their lands from invading white settlers. Taylor seemed to understand if not sympathize with the plight of the Native Americans, and he admired their style of guerrilla warfare. He frequently bemoaned the incompetence of the citizen militia units that he commanded in comparison to the superb discipline and unity of his Indian foes. For Taylor, the best solution to the ongoing wars required a strong military presence to stand between white settlers and the Native Americans. He viewed anything less as a poor and ultimately doomed solution.

Mexican War Hero

It was not his success as an Indian fighter, however, that propelled Zachary Taylor into national prominence. That achievement came from his military victories against Mexican troops during the war with Mexico (1846-1848). Briefly told, when Texas was granted statehood in 1845, President James K. Polk ordered Taylor into disputed lands on the Texas-Mexico border. When Mexicans there attacked his troops near the Rio Grande River, Polk declared to Congress, in May 1846, that war had begun by an act of Mexico. Events then happened rapidly. With superior artillery, Taylor easily defeated the substantially larger Mexican forces in Palo Alto, Mexico. Taylor then attacked the "un-destroyable" city of Monterrey, inflicting heavy casualties on its Mexican defenders, leaving 800 killed or wounded.

General Winfield Scott, commander of all U.S. troops, then ordered half of Taylor's army to join his troops for an assault on Veracruz. Mexican General Santa Anna, intercepting a letter from Scott to Taylor, knew that "Old Zack" (another nickname) would be left with just 6,000 men-most of whom were nonregulars. In February 1847, Santa Anna threw his nearly 20,000 soldiers into the Battle at Buena Vista, determined to annihilate "Old Rough and Ready." The two armies clashed, and when the smoke cleared, 1,800 Mexican soldiers lay dead or wounded-Taylor lost 672. Thoroughly defeated, the "Mexican Napoleon," as Santa Anna called himself, left the field, and General Zachary Taylor became an American hero.

The word of how Old Zack had fought alongside his troops in hand-to-hand combat at both Monterey and Buena Vista spread like a prairie fire across the nation. Taylor was compared to American war heroes George Washington and Andrew Jackson in the popular press. Stories were told about his informal dress, the tattered straw hat on his head, and the casual way he always sat atop his beloved horse, "Old Whitey," while shots buzzed around his head. The criticism that he had allowed the Mexican army at Monterrey to surrender without disbanding held no sway in the popular mind

What were some personality traits of President Zachary Taylor?

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Zachary Taylor was a very go with the flow kind of general. His nickname was old ruff and ready because he didn't care about the way his army was. He just wanted to smack down the enemy. He was really easy to get along with and very dirty the way he was. His battle tactics were just go up and fight. A lot of people liked and respected him, believe it or not he lost 3x as much troops as Ulysses S. Grant. He was another general in the Mexican War.

Why was Zachary Taylor in the Civil War?

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Zachary Taylor died on 9 July 1850 long before the US Civil War.

Where were Zachary and Taylor soldiers attacked?

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They were attacked in Rio Grande.

Who were Zachary Taylor's grandparents?

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President Zachary Taylor's father was Richard Taylor. Richard Taylor's father was Zachary Taylor. Zachary Taylor's father was James Taylor II. James Taylor II's father was James Taylor, Sr. The family came from Carlisle, England