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  Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor
The general went on to say that he hadn't voted for Taylor, partly because his wife was opposed to sending "Old Zack" to Washington, "where she would be obliged to go with him!" It was a truthful answer.
Taylor was not reconciled to Davis until they fought together in Mexico; in Washington the second Mrs.
Taylor's, often calling on her at the White House.
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 The Presidents of the United States - Zachary Taylor
In protest against Taylor the slaveholder and Cass the advocate of "squatter sovereignty," northerners who opposed extension of slavery into territories formed a Free Soil Party and nominated Martin Van Buren.
Although Taylor had subscribed to Whig principles of legislative leadership, he was not inclined to be a puppet of Whig leaders in Congress.
In addition, Taylor's solution ignored several acute side issues: the northern dislike of the slave market operating in the District of Columbia; and the southern demands for a more stringent fugitive slave law.
www.usemb.se /usflag/presidents/zt12.html   (628 words)

  
 juvenile Biography of United States First Lady   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
English, Scottish; Margaret Taylor's paternal great-great grandfather Captain Richard Smith was born in England and immigrated to the American colonies in 1649 with his brother Walter, who settled in Baltimore County.
Outside of the basic facts that Margaret "Peggy" Taylor was born and raised in a large brick plantation house (destroyed by fire in the early 20th century) to a wealthy and prosperous tobacco plantation family, no other documentation regarding her early life is extant.
Taylor was something of a crude and untamed specimen of the frontier west who smoked a corncob pipe and was kept hidden by her mortified family in the attic.
www.firstladies.org /curriculum/educational-biography.aspx?biography=13   (3434 words)

  
 American President
As a figure in her husband's presidential life, Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor seemed to be more a phantom than a person, and for good reason.
When Margaret failed to appear at the various inaugural balls, the press focused on her youthful and lively daughter.
It was a pattern oft repeated throughout Zachary Taylor's short presidency as Betty assumed her mother's place at all official functions.
www.americanpresident.org /history/zacharytaylor/firstlady/email.html   (580 words)

  
 Zachary Taylor - American Presidents
Taylor won fame as an "Indian fighter" in the present-day states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida, and Texas.
Taylor became a national hero after winning impressive victories in the was with Mexico.
Taylor was due to be inaugurated as President on March 4, 1849.
www.american-presidents.com /presidents/zachary-taylor   (1035 words)

  
 First Ladies' Biographical Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
All that said, Peggy Taylor was at the side of  her husband when the city of New Orleans celebrated him with parades and tributes as the great hero of the Mexican War.
She was also among the women members of the Taylor family to appear at the large public reception in the White House on March 4, 1850 to mark the one-year anniversary of Taylor's Inauguration, dressed in beautiful gowns and diamonds.
Taylor was something of a crude recluse from the frontier who smoked a corncob pipe and was kept hidden by her mortified family in the attic.
www.firstladies.org /biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=13   (3146 words)

  
 Exoticdogs.com:Zachary Taylor's Pet Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Bio: Zachary Taylor, (1784-1850), second cousin of James Madison and descendant of a Mayflower Pilgrim, was the 12th President Of The United States.
In 1808, Taylor began a long and successful military career when he was commissioned a first lieutenant of infantry.
Taylor died of cholera in office on July 9, 1850, when the national crisis was particularly acute.
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 Margaret Taylor, First Lady
Margaret (Peggy) was born in Calvert County, Maryland on September 21, 1788.
Margaret asked her daughter Betty to act as the hostess at White House events.
Margaret then left the Whitehouse and never spoke of her time there again.
www.classroomhelp.com /lessons/FirstLadies/MTaylor.html   (104 words)

  
 Explore DC: Margaret Taylor
By the time Zachary Taylor was elected president in 1848, Margaret had been a military wife for thirty years and was a semi-invalid who wanted only to live peacefully with her husband.
Margaret came to Washington very reluctantly and once there immediately abdicated her duties as first lady to her youngest daughter, Betty.
So withdrawn was Margaret that when Zachary died suddenly in 1850, many people did not know there even was a Mrs.
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 Biography of Zachary Taylor
Northerners and Southerners disputed sharply whether the territories wrested from Mexico should be opened to slavery, and some Southerners even threatened secession.
President Polk, disturbed by General Taylor's informal habits of command and perhaps his Whiggery as well, kept him in northern Mexico and sent an expedition under Gen. Winfield Scott to capture Mexico City.
He was the second president to die in office.
www.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/zt12.html   (648 words)

  
 The Papers of Jefferson Davis
Sarah Knox Taylor, the daughter of future president Zachary Taylor and Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor, was born at Fort Knox in Vincennes, Indiana, in either 1813 or 1814 (probably the latter), and was named for her paternal grandmother and for the fort where she was born.
The details of their courtship were lost to history in the summer of 1863 when Union troops carried off a packet of correspondence between Sarah Taylor and Davis.
Rumors of an elopement circulated for decades, but there was a formal ceremony, and the couple apparently had the blessing of Zachary Taylor, perhaps because Davis had decided to resign his commission.
cohesion.rice.edu /humanities/pjdavis/resources.cfm?doc_id=1552   (461 words)

  
 Biography of MARGARET MACKALL SMITH TAYLOR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Margaret Taylor was sixty years old and a semi-invalid when her husband, Zachary, became President.
This led to all sorts of unfounded rumors about the unseen First Lady such as that she smoked a corncob pipe and was uncouth.
(Actually, she was the daughter of Maryland landed gentry and she hated tobacco.) Her daughter, Betty Taylor Bliss, took on the duties of White House hostess.
www.multied.com /1812/Ghent.htmlhttp://timeline.cob-web.org:8888/Bio/ladies/taylor.html   (120 words)

  
 The Heritage of Calvert County, Maryland For the Young Reader
Smith once said that there were so many fish in the waters here that he tried to scoop them out with his frying pan.
Margaret Mackall Smith was born in St. Leonard, in Calvert County.
Margaret Taylor is the only First Lady without an authentic portrait - no one knows for sure what she looked like.
www.somd.lib.md.us /calvertheritage/book.html   (9702 words)

  
 Picture History - "Death of General Z. Taylor, 12th President of the United States"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The people in the room are labeled, from left to right: son (Richard Taylor); Mrs.
Taylor (Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor); Meredith (William Morris Meredith); Col. Bliss (William Wallace Smith Bliss, married to Taylor's fifth and youngest daughter, Mary Elizabeth); Rev. Mr.
Bliss (Mary Elizabeth Taylor); Collamer (Jacob Collamer); Fillmore (Millard Fillmore, Vice President in Taylor's administration); Preston (William Bellard Preston); Clayton (John Middleton Clayton); Johnson (Reverdy Johnson); Crawford (George Washington Crawford).
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 Court Margaret Smith - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Court Margaret Smith - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Court, Margaret Smith, born in 1942, Australian tennis player who won 24 major singles titles.
Search for books about your topic, "Court Margaret Smith"
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 Trading Card
Born in Maryland to a wealthy veteran of the Revolutionary War...
looking forward to retirement after the Mexican War, Margaret was strongly opposed to Taylor's presidential nomination...
Quote Taylor's nomination was the Democrats' "plot to deprive me of his society, and shorten his life..."
www.newsday.com /other/special/ny-prez12,0,408032.htmlstory   (236 words)

  
 Margaret Taylor, First Lady of the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In 1809, while visiting a sister in Kentucky she met Zachary Taylor, then an army lieutenant.
The next few years were spent from fort to fort, Zachary fighting Indians and "Peggy" having babies.
Although Taylor had a short Presidency, it was long enough for him to hear the murmurs of discontent and talk of secession.
www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/ladies/bio/12mts.html   (208 words)

  
 Biography of Margaret Taylor
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After the election of 1848, a passenger on a Mississippi riverboat struck up a conversation with easy-mannered Gen. Zachary Taylor, not knowing his identity.
One observer thought that her manner blended "the artlessness of a rustic belle and the grace of a duchess."
www.whitehouse.gov /history/firstladies/mt12.html   (456 words)

  
 President Zachory Taylor/Margaret Mackall Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Name: Sarah Knox Taylor Born: 6 MAR 1814 at: Vincennes, Indiana Married: 17 JUN 1835 at: Louisville, Kentucky Died: 15 AUG 1835 at: Locust Grove, Louisiana Spouses: Jefferson Finis Davis
Name: Margaret Smith Taylor Born: 27 JUL 1819 at: Jefferson Co., Kentucky Married: at: Died: 22 OCT 1820 at: Bayou Sara, LA Spouses:
Name: Mary Elizabeth Taylor Born: 20 APR 1824 at: Jefferson Co, KY Married: 5 DEC 1848 at: Died: 25 JUL 1909 at: Winchester, Virginia Spouses: William Smith Bliss Phillip Pendlington Danridge
www.fdu.com /family/tree/fam02885.htm   (297 words)

  
 Zachary TAYLOR/Margaret Mackall SMITH
Name: Ann Mackall TAYLOR Born: 1811 at: Married: at: Died: 1875 at: Spouses: Robert Crooke WOOD
Name: Sarah Knox TAYLOR Born: 1815 at: Married: 1835 at: Died: 1835 at: Spouses: Jefferson DAVIS
Name: Richard TAYLOR Born: 1826 at: Married: at: Died: 1879 at: Spouses: Louise Marie Marthe BRINGER
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 U.S. President's - 1845 to 1881
As a soldier always moving from location to location, Taylor never established an offical place of residence and never registered to vote, He didn't even vote in his own election.
His son Richard Taylor became a Confederate General during the Civil War
While serving in the Mexican War, under Generals Taylor and Scott, Grant was in every battle except Buena Vista.
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 ZACHARY TAYLOR
Second president inaugurated on March 5, (March 4 was a Sunday, and Taylor refused to be inaugurated on a Sunday because it offended his strict religious beliefs.) Since Polk's term expired at midnight March 3, 1849, and Taylor wasn't inaugurated until Monday, March 5, who was president on Sunday?
He didn't learn about it until several months later, as the law wasn't well known.
Taylor's favorite horse, Whity, had freedom of pasture on the White House lawn.
members.fortunecity.com /rebekah60/history/pres/12.htm   (183 words)

  
 The Wedding of Jefferson Davis and Sarah Knox Taylor
Today, a historical marker stands at the site of their wedding (located at 2 Rebel Road, near the corner of Brownsboro Rd. and Zorn Ave.) with the following description:
On June 17, 1835, the daughter of Zachary Taylor, Sarah Knox, married Jefferson Davis in the house that originally stood on this site.
The home was owned by Zachary Taylor's sister.
johnhuntmorgan.scv.org /wedding.htm   (414 words)

  
 Presidential Portraits - FULL COLLECTION DESCRIPTION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The division does not have an original print or photograph of Abigail Powers Fillmore, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, Julia Gardiner Tyler, or Letitia Christian Tyler.
No authentic portrait is known of Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor.
The list of first ladies in the special presentation time line comes from the book titled The First Ladies, by Margaret B.
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 Picture History - Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor (1788-1852) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Picture History - Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor (1788-1852) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)
Engraving of "Peggy" Taylor, wife of Zachary Taylor.
Taylor as she appeared in later life is from Presiding Ladies of the White House by Lila G. Woolfall, published in 1903.
www.picturehistory.com.cob-web.org:8888 /find/p/12065/mcms.html   (104 words)

  
 Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2005283773
Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog
The Ladies Martha Dandridge Custis Washington..........................................1 Abigail Smith Adams.......
55 Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor..................................................61 Abigail Powers Fillmore...................................................
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 Zachary TAYLOR/Margaret Mackall SMITH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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Born: 24 Nov 1784 at: Montebello, Orange Co, VA Married: at: Died: 9 Jul 1850 at: Washington, DC Father:Richard TAYLOR Mother: Other Spouses:
Born: 21 Sep 1788 at: Calvert Co, MD Died: 14 Aug 1852 at: Pascagoulia, MS Father: Mother: Other Spouses:
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