According to legend, Dolley Madison was referred to as " First Lady " in 1849 at her funeral in a eulogy delivered by President Zachary Taylor.

* 1850 – Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.

* 1850 – U. S. President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States.

Van Buren outlived his four immediate successors as President ( William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk and Zachary Taylor ).

* 1784 – Zachary Taylor, American general and 12th President of the United States ( d. 1850 )

* President Zachary Taylor ( United States )

** U. S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness ; no trace of arsenic is found.

* President Zachary Taylor ( United States )

** Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States ( b. 1784 )

* March 5 – Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States of America, takes his oath of office.

* November 24 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States ( d. 1850 )

The Compromise became possible after the sudden death of President Zachary Taylor, who, although a slaveowner, had favored excluding slavery from the Southwest.

* General Zachary Taylor, who became the Whig candidate in 1848 and then President from March 1849 to July 1850, proposed after becoming President that the entire area become two free states, called California and New Mexico but much larger than the eventual ones.

Zachary Taylor avoided the issue as the Whig candidate during the 1848 U. S. presidential election but then as President attempted to sidestep the entire controversy by pushing to admit California and New Mexico as free states immediately, avoiding the entire territorial process and thus the Wilmot Proviso question.

In 1850, Sherman was promoted to the substantive rank of Captain and married Thomas Ewing's daughter, Eleanor Boyle (" Ellen ") Ewing, in a Washington ceremony attended by President Zachary Taylor and other political luminaries.

Colonel Joseph P. Taylor, the brother of the late President Zachary Taylor, declared that " if you had hunted the whole army, from one end of it to the other, you could not have found a man in it more admirably suited for the position in every respect than Sherman.

* Thomas Ewing, first Secretary of the Interior, appointed by President Zachary Taylor

In 1849, President Zachary Taylor proposed that New Mexico immediately become a state to sidestep political conflict over slavery in the territories, but it did not become a state until January 1912.

395 ), the eve of President Zachary Taylor's inauguration, when the Senate voted 31 to 25 to create the Department.

It was named for Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States of America, who served from 1849 to 1850.

In 1849, President Zachary Taylor proposed that New Mexico, including this region, immediately become a state to sidestep political conflict over slavery in the territories.

Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.

Johnston remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Taylor to the U. S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December 1849.

* Taylor Branch The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President.

No disability or lack of qualification prevented Taylor and Fillmore from taking office, and as they had been duly certified to take office that day as president-elect and vice president-elect, if Taylor was not president because he had not been sworn in as such, then Atchison, who had not been sworn in either, certainly was not President either.

Atchison was sworn in for his new term as President pro tempore minutes before both Fillmore and Taylor, which might theoretically make him Acting President for at least that length of time ; however, this also implies that many times when the Vice President is sworn in before the President, the Vice President is the de facto Acting President.

President Doe and Yormie Johnson ( INPFL ) agreed to this intervention, Taylor didn ’ t.

November 1990, ECOWAS agreed with some principal Liberian players but without Charles Taylor, on an Interim Government of National Unity ( IGNU ) under President Dr. Amos Sawyer.

August 1995, factions signed an agreement largely brokered by Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian President ; Charles Taylor agreed.

They staged silent nonviolence protests and forced a meeting with President Charles Taylor and extracted a promise from him to attend peace talks in Ghana.

July 9, the Nigerian President offered Taylor safe exile in his country, if Taylor stayed out of Liberian politics.

Also in July, American President Bush stated twice that Taylor “ must leave Liberia ”.

President Taylor resigned, and flew into exile in Nigeria.

Under international pressure, President Sirleaf requested in March 2006 that Nigeria extradite Charles Taylor, who was then brought before an international tribunal in Sierra Leone to face charges of crimes against humanity, arising from events during the Sierra Leone civil war ( his trial was later transferred to The Hague for security purposes ).

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

Retiring to his beloved Mount Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.

The President was even more generous with the First Lady than he had been before the tragedy.

Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.

Rob Roy was self-appointed to accompany the President to his office every morning.

Rob Roy was well aware of the importance of this mission, and he would walk in front of the President, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

When Fosdick showed the letter to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't show this to the President or he'll stop the war ''.

This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too.

President Kennedy's latest warning to the Communist world that the United States will build up its military strength to meet any challenge in Berlin or elsewhere was, somewhat surprisingly, reported in full text or fairly accurate excerpts behind the Iron Curtain.

`` President Kennedy's enlargement of the American military program was welcomed on Wall Street as a stimulus to the American munitions industry.

President Kennedy was right when he said, `` We shall never negotiate out of fear and we never shall fear to negotiate ''.

We wish the President would remember that `` fiscal responsibility '' was the battle-cry of the party that lost the election.

I am sure that they did when Eisenhower was President.

You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??