Biography of Zachary Taylor, the twelfth President of the United States (1849-1850).

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America Votes Presidential Campaign Memorabilia from the Duke University Special Collections Library Zachary Taylor - 1848 General Zachary Taylor, another Virginia patrician by birth, was a hero of the Mexican War. Like Harrison and Tyler before him, he was a Whig. Vignettes on stationery were used for a variety of purposes including political campaigns. A project of The Digital Scriptorium, ...

Remembering President Zachary Taylor by Dave Mandl Considering the brevity of his stay in the White House (just under seven weeks), Zachary Taylor's spectacular legend seems grotesquely exaggerated, like the work of some crazed pre-Civil War spin doctor. But if anything, the reputation of our twelfth president has been muted in the century and a half since his death. Surrounded by controversy ...