But seasoned war veteran Zachary ... Taylor the rank of brigadier general. In 1845 President James K. Polk sent Taylor with a detachment of 4,000 troops to Texas. The United States and Mexico ...

a senatorial initiative to reconcile the competing issues involved in organizing the territories acquired in the victory over Mexico as well as related issues of slavery. Fillmore, in extending his ...

Born in Virginia, raised in Kentucky, with a home in Louisiana and a plantation in Mississippi, Zachary Taylor ... century successors. Taylor encouraged New Mexico and California to seek statehood ...