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Zachary
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12th President of the United States |
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March 5, 1849 to July 9, 1850 |
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Born: November 24, 1784, near
Barboursville, Virginia |
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Died: July 9, 1850, in Washington,
D.C. |
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Father: Lieutenant Colonel Richard
Taylor |
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Mother: Sarah Dabney Strother Taylor |
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Religion: Episcopalian |
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Education: No formal education |
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Occupation: Soldier |
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Political Party: Whig |
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Nickname: "Old Rough and
Ready" |
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Married: Margaret Mackall
Smith (1788-1852), on June 21, 1810
Children: Ann Mackall Taylor
(1811-75); Sarah Knox Taylor (1814-35); Octavia P. Taylor
(1816-20); Margaret Smith Taylor (1819-20); Mary Elizabeth Taylor
(1824-1909); Richard Taylor (1826-79)
Points of Interest:
- Taylor refused all postage due correspondences. Because
of this, he didn't receive notification of his nomination
for president until several days later.
- As a soldier always moving from location to location,
Taylor never established an offical place of residence
and never registered to vote, He didn't even vote in his
own election. It wasn't until he was 62 that he cast his
first ballot.
- November 7, 1848 was the first time a presidential
election was held on the same day in every state.
- Visitors to the White House would take souvenier horse
hairs from Whitey, Taylor's old Army horse that he kept
on the White House lawn
Zachary Taylor spent July 4, 1850, eating
cherries and milk at a ceremony at the Washington Monument. He
got sick from the heat and died five days later, the second
president to die in office.