Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor Biography
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Zachary Taylor was the 12th president of the United States of America (1849-1850). He would serve only 16 months in office and because of the short length his Presidency didn’t do much in major significance for the country. He would be the second President to die in office.
Zachary Taylor's Wife - Margaret (1846-1849)
Quick Facts:
| Full Name | Zachary Taylor |
| Birth Date | November 24, 1784 |
| Birth Place | near Barboursville, Virginia |
| Death Date | July 9, 1850 |
| Career | Soldier |
| Spouse(s) | June 21, 1810, to Margaret Mackall Smith (1788–1852) |
| Children | Ann Margaret Mackall (1811–1875) Sarah Knox (1814–1835) Octavia Pannill (1816–1820) Margaret Smith (1819–1820) Mary Elizabeth (1824–1909) Richard (1826–1879) |
| President No. | 12 |
| Presidency Begin | March 5, 1849 |
| Presidency End | July 9, 1850 |
| Vice President(s) | Millard Fillmore (1849–1850) |
| Administation | Millercenter.org |
Zachary Taylor was born on November 24, 1784, in Orange County, Virginia. The following year, Taylor’s family moved to Kentucky. The Taylors settled near modern-day Louisville. Taylor received a modest education, as no public schools existed at this time. Taylor’s father tried to hire tutors for his son, but he had difficulty finding any on the frontier.[31]
Taylor began his military career on May 3, 1808 when he joined the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant of the Kentuckian Seventh Infantry Regiment.[61] He would spend about 2 years stationed in the New Orleans area.
In November 1810 he was promoted to Captain and spent some time in Louisiana recovering from sickness. While there he started buying bank stock as well as a plantation.[62] He would also purchase the Cypress Grove Plantation in Jefferson City, Mississippi territory. [63]
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- **Presidential Flag Graphic source: Zscout370 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons
- (31) https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Zachary_Taylor
- (61) Timeline, 1784-1815 | Timeline | Articles and Essays | Zachary Taylor Papers | Digital Collections | Library of Congress”. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
- (62) Bauer, K. Jack (1985). Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1237-2. pp. 5–10; Hamilton, vol. 1, pp. 35–37.
- (63) Stanley Nelson, Taylor’s Cypress Grove Plantation, The Ouachita Citizen, August 6, 2014