Posts Tagged by Zachary Taylor
Presidential review: Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce
| September 1, 2011 | Posted by Oliver Nott under presidential reviews, reviews |
Zachary Taylor, 1849 – 1850 VP: Millard Fillmore, First Lady: Margaret Smith Zachary Taylor is remembered foremost as a military General, rather than the president of the United States. Known to his friends and colleagues as ‘Old Rough and Ready’, as a General through numerous wars he never lost a battle. Taylor suffered a similar, albeit extended, fate to William Henry Harrison and died only a year into his first term as president. However, while Harrison was greatly mourned over, Taylor’s death was a stroke of luck for the Union and many argue that it kept the civil war at bay for the next decade. Zachary Taylor was born on the 24th November 1784 in Barboursville, Virginia. He had military command… more
Presidential review: William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James Knox Polk
| August 18, 2011 | Posted by Oliver Nott under presidential reviews, reviews |
William Henry Harrison, 1841 VP: John Tyler, First Lady: Anna Symmes After Martin Van Buren’s rather uninspiring administration, the United States turned to William Henry Harrison in hope of a more active president who would boost the recovery from the Panic of 1837. Depicted as a frontiersman in his 1840 presidential election campaign, United States voters gave this 68-year-old war hero the chance to improve the nation’s economy and keep the union together. Unfortunately, Harrison had the chance to do neither. In fact, Harrison didn’t even get the chance to make a state of the union address, as he died of pneumonia exactly one month after taking office. Harrison was born on February 9th 1773 in Charles City County, Virginia.… more
