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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The year is 1846, U.S. President James Polk just sent General Zachary Taylor and a number of horse soldiers to Texas to force the claim that the southern border of America is the Rio Grande River.

24 (UPI) --Those born on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius. They include: -- Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the United States, in 1784 -- Architect Cass Gilbert in 1859 -- Artist ...

But seasoned war veteran Zachary Taylor emerged from ... His performance in the Seminole War won Taylor the rank of brigadier general. In 1845 President James K. Polk sent Taylor with a ...