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  2. Zachary Taylor - Wikipedia

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    Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850. Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general and becoming a national hero for his victories in the Mexican–American War. As a result, he won election to the ...

  3. Zachary Taylor National Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Zachary Taylor National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at 4701 Brownsboro Road (US-42), in Louisville, Kentucky. It is named for Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, who is buried there with his wife, Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor. Zachary Taylor National Cemetery was listed in the National Register of ...

  4. Margaret Taylor - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Mackall Taylor (née Smith; September 21, 1788 – August 14, 1852) was the first lady of the United States from 1849 to 1850 as the wife of President Zachary Taylor. She married Zachary in 1810 and lived as an army wife, accompanying her husband to his postings in the American frontier. She had six children, two of whom died in ...

  5. Richard Taylor (colonel) - Wikipedia

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    Richard Taylor (colonel) Richard Taylor (April 3, 1744 – January 19, 1829) was an officer in the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. He was the father of Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, and Joseph Pannell Taylor, who served as a general in the Union Army during the Civil War.

  6. Murders of Andrew Bagby and Zachary Turner - Wikipedia

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    Charges. Murder of Bagby: Shirley Jane Turner: First-degree murder (died before standing trial) Zachary Andrew Turner (18 July 2002 – 18 August 2003) [2]: 78 was a Canadian child from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, who was killed by his mother, Shirley Jane Turner, in a murder–suicide. [2]: 494 [3] At the time, Shirley had been ...

  7. Millard Fillmore - Wikipedia

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    Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, and was the last president to have been a member of the Whig Party while in office. A former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Fillmore was elected the 12th vice president in 1848, and succeeded to the ...

  8. Lee family - Wikipedia

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    Lee family. The Lee family of the United States is a historically significant Virginia and Maryland political family, whose many prominent members are known for their accomplishments in politics and the military. The family became prominent in colonial British America when Richard Lee I ("The Immigrant") immigrated to Colonial Virginia in 1639 ...

  9. Zachary Taylor and slavery - Wikipedia

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    Taylor was a cotton planter who is believed to have owned, at minimum, 81 slaves when he became president. [1] Taylor's slave ownership was a campaign issue in 1848, with opponents asserting that he would oppose the Wilmot Proviso and abolition because he owned 200-some slaves on two plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana and had recently invested heavily in "negroes" with purchases at the ...

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