tell me interesting things about zachary taylor, the president, please!?

Question

tell me thing that are interesting, funny, and out of the ordinary, but please let it be appropiate. please state you source if you have any. dont tell me things like that he was the 12th president.

Answer 1

One odd item is that he was the first father-in-law of Jefferson Davis, who was later the President of the Confederate States of America. Taylor had disapproved of the marriage - which did not last long as the lady died young - but in Mexico he saw Davis lead his regiment superbly. He was then man enough to go up to Davis and say "Sir. My daughter was a better judge of men that I." He was quite a character.

Answer 2

Why? You can do as someone else here has. Search the web. You won't find anything funny, BUT interesting & unusual. Taylor refused all postage due correspondences. Because of this, he didn't receive notification of his nomination for president until several days later.
As a soldier always moving from location to location, Taylor never established an offical place of residence and never registered to vote, He didn't even vote in his own election. It wasn't until he was 62 that he cast his first ballot.
November 7, 1848 was the first time a presidential election was held on the same day in every state.
Visitors to the White House would take souvenier horse hairs from Whitey, Taylor's old Army horse that he kept on the White House lawn.

Answer 3

remember the Compromise of 1850, an attempt to maintain the Union: See excerpt from Wikipedia: The slavery situation ruled Taylor's little while period. no matter if he owned slaves, he took a lifelike stance on the territorial enlargement of slavery, angering fellow Southerners. He advised them that if necessary to implement the regulations, he in my opinion may lead the military. persons "taken in revolt hostile to the Union, he may draw close ... with a lot less reluctance than he had hanged deserters and spies in Mexico." He under no circumstances wavered. Henry Clay then proposed a complicated Compromise of 1850. Taylor died because it develop into being debated. (The Clay version failed yet yet another version did bypass less than the hot president, Millard Fillmore.)

Answer 4

He was the only President to have a son in law, who was also an American President. Bet you will never guess who his son in law was.

Answer 5

Northerners and Southerners disputed sharply whether the territories wrested from Mexico should be opened to slavery, and some Southerners even threatened secession. Standing firm, Zachary Taylor was prepared to hold the Union together by armed force rather than by compromise.

Born in Virginia in 1784, he was taken as an infant to Kentucky and raised on a plantation. He was a career officer in the Army, but his talk was most often of cotton raising. His home was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and he owned a plantation in Mississippi.

But Taylor did not defend slavery or southern sectionalism; 40 years in the Army made him a strong nationalist.

He spent a quarter of a century policing the frontiers against Indians. In the Mexican War he won major victories at Monterrey and Buena Vista.

President Polk, disturbed by General Taylor's informal habits of command and perhaps his Whiggery as well, kept him in northern Mexico and sent an expedition under Gen. Winfield Scott to capture Mexico City. Taylor, incensed, thought that "the battle of Buena Vista opened the road to the city of Mexico and the halls of Montezuma, that others might revel in them."

"Old Rough and Ready's" homespun ways were political assets. His long military record would appeal to northerners; his ownership of 100 slaves would lure southern votes. He had not committed himself on troublesome issues. The Whigs nominated him to run against the Democratic candidate, Lewis Cass, who favored letting the residents of territories decide for themselves whether they wanted slavery.

In protest against Taylor the slaveholder and Cass the advocate of "squatter sovereignty," northerners who opposed extension of slavery into territories formed a Free Soil Party and nominated Martin Van Buren. In a close election, the Free Soilers pulled enough votes away from Cass to elect Taylor.

Although Taylor had subscribed to Whig principles of legislative leadership, he was not inclined to be a puppet of Whig leaders in Congress. He acted at times as though he were above parties and politics. As disheveled as always, Taylor tried to run his administration in the same rule-of-thumb fashion with which he had fought Indians.

Traditionally, people could decide whether they wanted slavery when they drew up new state constitutions. Therefore, to end the dispute over slavery in new areas, Taylor urged settlers in New Mexico and California to draft constitutions and apply for statehood, bypassing the territorial stage.

Southerners were furious, since neither state constitution was likely to permit slavery; Members of Congress were dismayed, since they felt the President was usurping their policy-making prerogatives. In addition, Taylor's solution ignored several acute side issues: the northern dislike of the slave market operating in the District of Columbia; and the southern demands for a more stringent fugitive slave law.

In February 1850 President Taylor had held a stormy conference with southern leaders who threatened secession. He told them that if necessary to enforce the laws, he personally would lead the Army. Persons "taken in rebellion against the Union, he would hang ... with less reluctance than he had hanged deserters and spies in Mexico." He never wavered.

Then events took an unexpected turn. After participating in ceremonies at the Washington Monument on a blistering July 4, Taylor fell ill; within five days he was dead. After his death, the forces of compromise triumphed, but the war Taylor had been willing to face came 11 years later. In it, his only son Richard served as a general in the Confederate Army.

Answer 6

NOT FUNNY AT ALL