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Zachary Taylor
12th President of the United States

Zachary Taylor 

1849–1850

Vice President: Millard Fillmore
Born: November 24, 1784, near Barboursville, Virginia
Died: July 9, 1850, in Washington, D.C.
Career/Occupation: Soldier
Religion: Episcopalian
Education: No formal Education
Political Party: Whig
Nickname(s): "Old Rough and Ready"


Other Government Positions:
None 

Presidential Salary: $25,000


Firsts: 

• First President who had served in no prior elected office.
• First President to serve in the Mexican–American War.
• First President to take office while his party held a minority of seats in the U.S. Senate.
• First President to win an election with his party holding no majority in either house of Congress.
• First President from Kentucky.
• First President to be elected while winning the same number of states as his opponent.
• First President to win the U.S. presidential election in November.
• First President to have had a Secretary of the Interior.
• First President to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal more than once (he was awarded it three times).