Born in Virginia, raised in Kentucky, with a home in Louisiana and a plantation in Mississippi, Zachary Taylor lived the nomadic life of a career soldier, never casting a vote. Although a slave ...

But seasoned war veteran Zachary Taylor emerged from ... His performance in the Seminole War won Taylor the rank of brigadier general. In 1845 President James K. Polk sent Taylor with a ...

Dan McLaughlin is distressed that poor Zachary Taylor “deserves ... that the party never recovered. Taylor was the last Whig president as the party soon imploded. Party break ups are messy ...

The year is 1846, U.S. President James Polk just sent General Zachary Taylor and a number of horse soldiers to Texas to force the claim that the southern border of America is the Rio Grande River.