Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

Johnston returned to the Texas Army during the Mexican-American War under General Zachary Taylor as a colonel of the 1st Texas Rifle Volunteers.

With the party split, Whig nominee Zachary Taylor was easily victorious, and carried Tennessee as well.

( The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover.

His successor, Zachary Taylor, refused to be sworn in to office on Sunday.

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

* 1847 – Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

* 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.

In January 1846, to increase pressure on Mexico to negotiate, Polk sent troops under General Zachary Taylor into the area between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande — territory that was claimed by both the U. S. and Mexico.

General Zachary Taylor, at the same time, was having success on the Rio Grande, although Polk did not reinforce his troops there.

In the 1848 election, however, the Whigs nominated General Zachary Taylor, a war hero, and celebrated his victories.

Davis was still in Mississippi during the Black Hawk War of 1832 but, at its conclusion, his colonel Zachary Taylor assigned him to escort the chief Black Hawk to prison.

Davis served under Zachary Taylor starting in 1832.

In recognition of Davis ' bravery and initiative, commanding general Zachary Taylor is reputed to have said, " My daughter, sir, was a better judge of men than I was.

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* 1846 – Mexican – American War: The Battle of Palo Alto – Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.

* 1846 – Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.

He won no electoral votes, but took enough votes in New York to give the state — and perhaps the election — to Zachary Taylor.

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 )

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* 1846 – U. S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.

During the Mexican American War ( 1846 – 1848 ), Lieutenant Grant served under Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott.

The Holy See's Annuario Pontificio, in its list of popes and antipopes, attaches a footnote to its mention of Stephen II ( III ): " On the death of Zachary the Roman priest Stephen was elected ; but, since four days later he died, before his consecratio, which according to the canon law of the time was the true commencement of his pontificate, his name is not registered in the Liber Pontificalis nor in other lists of the Popes.

Stephen was a priest of Rome elected Pope in March 752 to succeed Pope Zachary ; he died of a stroke a few days later, before being ordained a bishop.

The Annuario Pontificio attaches to its mention of Stephen II ( III ) the footnote: " On the death of Zachary the Roman priest Stephen was elected ; but, since four days later he died, before his consecratio, which according to the canon law of the time was the true commencement of his pontificate, his name is not registered in the Liber Pontificalis nor in other lists of the Popes.

Unsuccessful at stopping the Lombard advance, Gregory III died on 28 November 741, and was succeeded by Pope Zachary.

Nobody would guess that Sean, Esther, Zachary, Zelda and Kate-Sean's 19 year-old daughter by his first wife, who died of cancer-are a patchwork family.

Yell fought in the Mexican War under General Zachary Taylor and died in the war in 1848.

Her eldest son, Zachary, was baptised on 17 August 1557, and her eldest daughter, Susanna, on 11 December 1558 ; both died young.

His first wife, Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of the future president Zachary Taylor, had died three months after their wedding in 1835 of malaria.

Four days later, on March 13, Downs died at Lane Memorial Hospital in Zachary, LA.

The youngest Reynolds child, Zachary Smith Reynolds, called " Smith ," was seven when his mother died.

When Zachary Taylor died on July 9, Vice President Millard Fillmore became President.

* Zachary Lansdowne, an aviator in the US Navy who died in the crash of the USS Shenandoah ( ZR-1 )

After Zachary died in March 752, and after the death of his successor Pope-elect Stephen a mere three days after his own election in March 752, the eventual successor, Pope Stephen II, went to meet Pepin the Short ( who had been crowned at Soissons with Zachary's blessing ) at Quiercy-sur-Loire in 753, marking the first time a Pope had crossed the Alps.

Zacharias Chrysopolitanus, also known as Zachary of Besançon, was from Besançon ( Chrysopolis ) and died about 1155.

The group soon learns that the brain patterns of Optimus Prime ( who died sometime before ) have been preserved on computer disk by a human named Ethan Zachary.

Zachary, whose mother died recently, alternately courts death-driving too fast, flying recklessly in a plane-and runs away from it.

Edwards ' father died in 1756, and his maintenance and education were undertaken by his maternal uncle, Zachary Bayly, a wealthy merchant in Jamaica.

The only president who died in office without being elected in a " cursed " year was Zachary Taylor, who was elected in 1848 and died in 1850.

Only years later, after his mother died of cancer and he was settling the estate, did Zachary discover his father's paraphernalia and journals and discover that Jack Johnson had been the missing superhero Jack-in-the-Box.