It was while engaged in this business that Mr. Coleman, then a steamboat Captain, kidnapped President-elect Zachary Taylor by way of a joke. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Born in Virginia, raised in Kentucky, with a home in Louisiana and a plantation in Mississippi, Zachary ... were realized, Taylor suddenly fell ill and died -- a recent exhumation and autopsy ...

their ticket was headed by former President Martin Van Buren. Challenges: Despite being a southerner and a wealthy slave owner, the apolitical Zachary Taylor sought to be a unifying figure in his ...

But seasoned war veteran Zachary Taylor emerged from ... His performance in the Seminole War won Taylor the rank of brigadier general. In 1845 President James K. Polk sent Taylor with a ...