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-Zachary Taylor served as president for only one year.

-He was known as "Old Rough-and-Ready"

-He had 4 children: 3 girls and 1 boy

-Taylor was a slave owner

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--Zachary was born in Virginia, but his parents moved to Kentucky when he was still a baby.

--He grew up in the frontier country of Kentucky living most of his childhood in a log cabin. His father was a farmer.

-Taylor joined the army, where he would spend the next 40 years. (1808-1848

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He was most famous for his long military career and his victories in the Mexican-American War

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Born: November 24, 1784 in Orange County, Virginia
Died: July 9, 1850 in Washington D.C. while in office.

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Despite all the common and uncommon deaths, Taylor had an extremely rare and strange death.

-- While an Independence Day celebration, he ate a snack of buttermilk and cherries and a few days later, he died of cholera.

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President James Madison was Taylor's second cousin.

He is said to have earned his nickname Old Rough-and-Ready from his clothing, "rough", and his preparedness to fight, "ready".

There are theories that he was actually assassinated and that the snack he ate was purposely poisoned.