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 ...

Saturday was the annual clean up of the wreaths at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery. Just before Christmas, a wreath was at the base of all 11,000 graves. It was the first time every veterans' grave ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Looking now to “Old Rough and Ready” - Zachary Taylor Prior to becoming the twelfth ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - This holiday season will be historic for Zachary Taylor National Cemetery in Louisville as Wreaths Across America reached an important goal this year. For the last 16 ...

This was the first time ever that Wreaths Across America was able to decorate every veteran’s grave in the cemetery.

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 ...

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 ...