Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States

Term

12th President of the United States
Whig
March 4, 1849 - July 9, 1850  (64-65)
Preceded by James K. Polk
Succeeded by Millard Fillmore

Data

Full Name	Zachary Taylor
Born	November 24, 1784
Birthplace	Barboursville, Virginia
Died	July 9, 1850  (65 years)
Deathplace	Washington, D.C.

Parents

Richard Lee Taylor

Born April 3, 1744
Father: Zachary Taylor  (1707-68) (61 years)
Mother: Elizabeth Allerton Lee  (1709-53) (44 years)
Married: 1779-1822  (43 years, widowed)
Died January 19, 1829  (84 years)

Sarah Dabney Strother

Born December 11, 1760
Father: William Dabney Strother  (1726-1808) (82 years)
Mother: Sarah Bailey  (1720-74) (54 years)
Children: 9
Died December 13, 1822  (62 years)

Siblings

1. Hancock Strother Taylor  (1781-1841) (60 years) (married 1806  Sophia Hoard  (1780-1813) (33 years)) (married 1814  Annah Lewis  (1796-1881) (85 years))
2. William Dabney Strother Taylor  (1782-1808) (26 years)
3. Richard Strother Taylor  (1786-86) (1 day)
4. George Taylor  (1790-1829) (39 years) (married 1814  Mary Campbell  (1795-1864) (69 years))
5. Elizabeth Lee Taylor  (1792-1845) (53 years) (married 1810  John Taylor  (1786-1829) (43 years))
6. Joseph Pannell Taylor  (1796-1864) (68 years) (married 1827  Evelyn McLean  (1809-87) (78 years))
7. Sarah Bailey Taylor  (1799-1851) (52 years) (married 1819  French Gray  (1785-1840) (55 years))
8. Emily Richard Taylor  (1801-41) (40 years) (married 1822  John Allison  (1800-82) (82 years))

Marriages

1. Margaret Mackall Smith

Born September 21, 1788
Father: Walter Smith  (1747-1804) (57 years)
Mother: Ann Hance Mackall  (1753-89) (36 years)
Marriage: June 21, 1810 - July 9, 1850  (40 years, died)
Died August 14, 1852  (63 years)

Children

1. Ann Margaret Mackall Taylor

Born April 9, 1811
Husband: Robert Crooke Wood  (1801-69) (68 years)
Married: September 20, 1829 - March 28, 1869  (39 years, widowed)
Children: John, Robert, Blandina, Sarah
Died December 2, 1875  (64 years)

2. Sarah Knox Taylor

Born March 6, 1814
Husband: Jefferson Finis Davis  (1808-89) (81 years)
Married: June 17, 1835 - September 15, 1835  (2 months, died)
Died September 15, 1835  (21 years)

3. Octavia Pannell Taylor

Born August 15, 1816
Died July 8, 1820  (3 years)

4. Margaret Smith Taylor

Born July 27, 1819
Died July 8, 1820  (11 months)

5. Mary Elizabeth Taylor

Born April 20, 1824
First Husband: William Wallace Smith Bliss  (1815-53) (38 years)
Married: December 5, 1848 - August 5, 1853  (4 years, widowed)
Second Husband: Philip Pendleton Dandridge  (1817-81) (64 years)
Married: February 11, 1858 - October 28, 1881  (23 years, widowed)
Died July 25, 1909  (85 years)

6. Richard Scott Taylor

Born January 27, 1826
Wife: Louise Marie Myrthe Bringier  (1834-75) (41 years)
Married: February 10, 1851 - March 16, 1875  (24 years, widowed)
Children: Louise, Elizabeth, Zachary, Richard, Myrthe
Died April 12, 1879  (53 years)

Military Service

Major General in the United States Army  (1808-49)

Presidential Election of 1848

General Election

Nominee	State	Political Party	Popular Votes	Electoral Votes
Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore	KY NY	Whig	1, 361, 393  (47.3%)	163
Lewis Cass William Orlando Butler	MI KY	Democratic	1, 223, 460  (42.5%)	127
Martin Van Buren Charles Francis Adams	NY MA	Free Soil	291, 505  (10.1%)	0
Gerrit Smith Charles C. Foote	NY MI	Liberty	2, 545  (0.1%)	0

Vice President

Millard Fillmore  (1800-74)	NY	1849-50

Cabinet

Secretary of State

John M. Clayton  (1796-1856)	DE	1849-50

Secretary of the Treasury

William M. Meredith  (1799-1873)	PA	1849-50

Secretary of War

George W. Crawford  (1798-1872)	GA	1849-50

Attorney General

Reverdy Johnson  (1796-1876)	MD	1849-50

Secretary of the Navy

William Ballard Preston  (1805-62)	VA	1849-50

Postmaster General

Jacob Collamer  (1791-1865)	VT	1849-50

Secretary of the Interior

Thomas Ewing  (1789-1871)	OH	1849-50

United States Supreme Court

Chief Justice

Roger B. Taney  (1777-1864)	MD	1836-64  (28 years)

Associate Justices

John McLean  (1785-1861)	OH	1829-61  (32 years)
James Moore Wayne  (1790-1867)	GA	1835-67  (32 years)
John Catron  (1786-1865)	TN	1837-65  (28 years)
John McKinley  (1780-1852)	AL	1837-52  (15 years)
Peter Vivian Daniel  (1784-1860)	VA	1841-60  (19 years)
Samuel Nelson  (1792-1875)	NY	1845-72  (27 years)
Levi Woodbury  (1789-1851)	NH	1845-51  (6 years)
Robert Cooper Grier  (1794-1870)	PA	1846-70  (24 years)