Zachary Taylor, his home and family
Author : Annah Robinson Watson
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Page : 9 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 1893
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Author : Annah Robinson Watson
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Page : 9 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 1893
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Author : John S. D. Eisenhower
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429997419
The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil War Zachary Taylor was a soldier's soldier, a man who lived up to his nickname, "Old Rough and Ready." Having risen through the ranks of the U.S. Army, he achieved his greatest success in the Mexican War, propelling him to the nation's highest office in the election of 1848. He was the first man to have been elected president without having held a lower political office. John S. D. Eisenhower, the son of another soldier-president, shows how Taylor rose to the presidency, where he confronted the most contentious political issue of his age: slavery. The political storm reached a crescendo in 1849, when California, newly populated after the Gold Rush, applied for statehood with an anti- slavery constitution, an event that upset the delicate balance of slave and free states and pushed both sides to the brink. As the acrimonious debate intensified, Taylor stood his ground in favor of California's admission—despite being a slaveholder himself—but in July 1850 he unexpectedly took ill, and within a week he was dead. His truncated presidency had exposed the fateful rift that would soon tear the country apart.
Author : Kathleen Waters
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Page : pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : Zachary Taylor
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,21 MB
Release : 1847
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Health and safety concerns about his wife, Ann, and children, moving to a healthier place, his public image and possible presidency [1848]. If elected president, he will serve Honestly and faithfully in accordance with the provisions of the constitution.
Author : Charles Morris
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 2015-11-23
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ISBN : 9781519480279
True Stories of Our Presidents is a collection of short histories of our presidents, written for a high school audience.
Author : K. Jack Bauer
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 1993-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807118511
Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor “was and remains an enigma.” He was a southerner who espoused many antisouthern causes, an aristocrat with a strong feeling for the common man, an energetic yet cautious and conservative soldier. Not an intellectual, Taylor showed little curiosity about the world around him. In this biography—the most comprehensive since Holman Hamilton’s two-volume work published forty years ago—Bauer offers a fresh appraisal of Taylor’s life and suggests that Taylor may have been neither so simple nor so nonpolitical as many historians have believed. Taylor’s sixteen months as president were marked by disputes over California statehood and the Texas–New Mexico boundary. Taylor vehemently opposed slavery extension and threatened to hang those southern hotheads who favored violence and secession as a means to protect their interests. He died just as he had begun a reorganization of his administration and a recasting of the Whig party. Balanced and judicious, forthright and unreverential, and based on thoroughgoing research, this book will be for many years the standard biography of Zachary Taylor.
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Page : 894 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 1893
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Author : Jeremy Roberts
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822513971
Presents the life and accomplishments of the United States president who was nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready" because of his perfect army record.
Author : Roderic D. Schmidt
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781404229891
Introduction to the life, times, and key achievements of Zachary Taylor while including step-by-step illustrations with easy to follow directions that allow the reader to draw what they are learning.
Author : Heidi M. D. Elston
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 9781680778137
"This biography introduces readers to Zachary Taylor including his early political career and key events from Taylor's administration including the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and the national debate over slavery. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Publisher's website.