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Yes, Zachary Taylor is known for serving in the military.
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No- Zachary Taylor was never the vice-president. In fact, he never held any political office before he was elected US President. He was famous because of his success as an US army general in the Mexican War.
Both he and his wife were lawyers/attorneys just before he ran for the Illinois Senate seat.Obama's former occupation is a law teacheru.s. senatorHe was a lawyer, held a community action position in Chicago and worked as a law professor.President Obama was a senator from Illinois before becoming president.
The 12th President of the United States of America was Zachary Taylor.
Zachary Taylor is the 12th US president.
Zachary Taylor was a Whig.
No- Taylor never held any elected office before he was President. He never even voted.
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Zachary Taylor was still the U.S. President when he died in 1850.
President Zachary Taylor died in the year 1850.
The answer is that several presidents had not previously held elected public office before becoming President: Zachary Taylor, U.S. Grant, William Howard Taft [although he was governor-general of the Philippines], Herbert Hoover, and Dwight Eisenhower. This now includes Donald Trump.