grant took heroic action — and did a poor job of it. But seasoned war veteran Zachary Taylor emerged from the Mexican War a hero, and won election to the presidency. Born in Montebello ...

Dan McLaughlin is distressed that poor Zachary Taylor “deserves better” than my Politico article paralleling his nomination to Donald Trump’s. I warned in that piece that back in 1848 ...

Zachary Taylor was the reluctant candidate of the Whig Party, which nominated him purely on his reputation as a hero of the Mexican–American War. He defeated Democrat Lewis Cass. The election was ...

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 Republicans what happened to the Whigs after ...

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 ...