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No president laid the Washington Monument's cornerstone in 1850. The cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1848 by Benjamin Brown French (September 4, 1800 - August 12, 1870), Grand Master of the Masons.

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Zachary Taylor. He became ill with some gastric ailment that night and died five days later.

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