Vice President-elect JD Vance will be the 50th ... he served the bulk of a presidential term thanks to the Grim Reaper. After Zachary Taylor died, possibly from contaminated water and cherries ...

the second and last elected Whig president, Zachary Taylor. I suspect we disagree less than that chain of responses would imply. There is much to recommend in his caution that Trump could do to ...

It was while engaged in this business that Mr. Coleman, then a steamboat Captain, kidnapped President-elect Zachary Taylor by way of a joke. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

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 ...

A powerful congressman from New York, Millard Fillmore was Zachary Taylor’s vice president and ascended to the presidency upon Taylor’s death. Challenges: Millard Fillmore inherited the uncompleted ...

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 ...

"The 11th President had spent the previous evening with Congress trying to pass some final appropriation bills before turning the Oval Office over to the incoming Zachary Taylor,” Polk wrote in ...

their ticket was headed by former President Martin Van Buren. Challenges: Despite being a southerner and a wealthy slave owner, the apolitical Zachary Taylor sought to be a unifying figure in his ...

The eight presidents who died in office are, in chronological order: William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor ... However, the offices of the president and vice president have never been ...

Following the nomination of Zachary Taylor for president in 1848, the Whigs chose the modest Fillmore as vice president to capitalize on his moderate positions and New York roots. Campaigning for ...