Zachary Taylor

General Zachary Taylor played a crucial role in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) as a key military leader for the United States. He gained fame for his victories in battles such as the Battle of Palo Alto and the Battle of Buena Vista, which bolstered U.S. morale and demonstrated his strategic skills. Taylor's success on the battlefield helped him gain national prominence, ultimately leading to his election as the 12th President of the United States. His military leadership during the war was instrumental in securing U.S. territorial expansion in the Southwest.

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The slavery issue helped Taylor in South. Taylor was a life-long Southerner and owned a plantation in Louisiana and used hundreds of slaves . He kept quiet about his feeling on slavery, so even though the Whigs were not known as being for slavery, people in the South preferred Taylor over the Democrat, Lewis Cass from Ohio. Another factor was a third party candidate, ex-President Martin Van Buren, who ran on an anti-slavery platform which favored the Wilmont Proviso, which outlawed slavery in the new territory obtained from Mexico. Cass opposed this proviso, but favored letting the people of the new territories vote on whether to allow slavery. Thus Cass worried the South but was not strong enough against slavery to win over Van Buren supporters. Van Buren won enough votes in New York to tip the state to Taylor.

Zachary Taylor, the 12th US President, was inaugurated on March 4, 1849 and died in office July 9, 1850. Another of his nicknames was "Old Rough and Ready" (a reference to his Army service).

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Zachary Taylor grew up in Kentucky, near Louisville and is buried there. I do not think he contributed much besides his name to the state.

Zachary Taylor was the first president to have a Secretary of the Interior. However, he did not create the cabinet position or the Interior Department. The Interior Department was created by Congress in 1849.

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Pres. Taylor was elected President as a member of the Whig Party, which lasted between 1834-1856. The party split in the issue of slavery. The Conscience Whigs of New England and Mid-Atlantic States supported the abolition of slavery. The Cotton Whigs of the South, supported the expansion of slavery to the western territories of the United States. The Whig party also opposed the policies of President Andrew Jackson, which some members calling the President, "King Andrew". The Whig party had states' rights advocates, supporters of the American System, and in some respect supported the use of federal action when dealing with national problems. To say these views are liberal or conservative remains to be seen. After the party split due to the slavery issue, the Conscience Whigs joined the Republican Party while the Cotton Whigs joined the Democratic Party.

His sudden death was obviously the greatest source of turmoil for his administration. Other than that, the big issue was whether to allow slavery in the territory recently annexed from Mexico and what policy to follow regarding slavery in new states that might be added out of this new territory in the future. Taylor was a slave-owner and most people assumed he would favor the expansion of slavery even though he did not say so during the campaign, but after he became president he favored adding California to the union as a free state but rejected the concessions to the South that what became known as the Compromise of 1859 proposed. He was also strongly opposed to the right of secession.

Here is the story of the life of Zachary Taylor.Zachary Taylor was born on November 24,1784 in Virginia.In 1785 his family to what is now called Northern Kentucky.In 1810 he married Margaret Mackall Smith.In 1835 his daughter Sarah married Jefferson Davis.In 1846 president James K.Polk sent Taylor to Texas.In 1847 he returned to his Louisiana plantation.In 1849 Taylor became the 12th president of the United States.He chose Millard Fillmore as his vice president.Zachary Taylor died on July 9,1850 just five days after a July 4th celebration.Two months after his death Congress passed the Compromise of 1850 which allowed slavery in some territories and it added California as a free state.Zachary Taylor is buried at the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery in Louisville,Kentucky.

No, he stuck to his plan that he announced prior to Clay's, to admit California immediately as a free state and get New Mexico to also go immediately to enacting a constitution. He hoped to skip the contention over the Wilmot Proviso by not having them go through an interim phase where Congress passes a law establishing them as territories under the United States. Taylor was willing to lead troops himself to fight Texas over the New Mexico border, one of the issues that needed resolution.

No, he does not. See the related link for information about Presidential libraries.

Taylor does not even have a museum or home or any shrine that is open for visitors, except his grave which is in a national cemetery.

While Taylor was ineffective, few historians regard Taylor as the very worst. Many -- and I agree with them -- give James Buchanann the (dis)honor of being the worst. Buchanann ignored or aggravated divisions over slavery and set the set stage for the Civil War, the effects of which are still felt today.

Zachary Taylor was apart of the military

service. He was also a war hero.

Zachary Taylor is a/an Military officer

It is that Zachary Taylor had little if no supplies during the war of 1812 and his troops were of a loss of fighting units as in artillery he was running a "cheap army".

The Battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de La Palma, Monterrey, and Buena Vista made Zachary Taylor a hero and a president.

The Siege of Veracruz, capturing Mexico City, and Battles of Contreas, Molino del Ray, Mexico City, and Chrubusco made Winfied Scott a hero.

Ann Margaret Mackall Taylor 1811-1875 Sarah Knox Taylor 1814-1835 Octavia Pannill Taylor 1816-1820 Margaret Smith Taylor 1819-1820 Mary Elizabeth Taylor 1824-1909 Richard Taylor 1826-1879