The Presidents #12: Zachary Taylor

[Ardent15]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Taylor

Discuss him and his brief Presidency.

[Rage Inc.]

1. C'mon C'mon COME ON!

Get to Millard Fillmore, man!

[Ardent15]

2. LOL

That was funny.

[TuxedoKat]

5. Or was it Fillard Millmore?

Sorry, his name lends itself to reversal like that!

[Lifelong Protester]

3. What? what? did I miss John Tyler?? DAMN!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. I remember when they dug him up about 10 years ago

and checked his corpse for signs of arsenic, in an effort to settle an old conspiracy theory that he was poisoned with a bowl of cherries

[Alexander]

6. He never voted before his victory in 1848.

He was chosen to keep the northern and southern Whigs from dividing into anti- and pro-slavery factions.

The second Whig president, also a military general who died early in office like the first.

In the next election, the Whigs nominated Winfield Scott. In 3 out of the 4 presidential races in which the Whigs ran a single candidate nationwide, he was a military general war hero.

It seems the Whigs, like many parties before and since, liked to nominate war heroes in order to smooth over the divisions in their party and avoid taking strong stances on issues.