Zachary Taylor | President's Day | Kentucky Life | KET
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- Опубліковано 16 лют 2014
- "Zachary Taylor" on this segment of the President's Day episode of Kentucky Life on KET.
Despite the fact that Louisiana is considered his home state, Zachary Taylor, who was president from 1849-1850, has many ties to Kentucky. Born in Virginia in 1785, he was raised here on a farm two miles east of Louisville, on Muddy Fork of Beargrass Creek. He married in Kentucky and five of his six children were born here.
In later life, his home was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he was a slaveholder with a cotton plantation in Mississippi. A career military man, "Old Rough and Ready" became a national hero in the Mexican-American War-and a perfect choice for presidential candidate among Southerners.
After Taylor was elected president in 1848, he surprised everyone by rejecting the extension of slavery into those territories recently taken from Mexico. Kentucky's Henry Clay came up with a compromise, proposing that California be admitted as a free state and the other territories be allowed to have slavery. Taylor remained opposed, so much so that the old general threatened to lead the Army against Southern secessionists.
A compromise was still under debate when Taylor died unexpectedly on July 9, 1850, after a brief but severe gastrointestinal illness. Official word from his doctors was that he died of cholera. Taylor's body was taken back home to Louisville for burial in the family cemetery.
However, for over a century afterward, some historians wondered if Taylor's political enemies had poisoned him with arsenic. His body was exhumed in 1991 and the Kentucky coroner, Dr. George Nichols, said it was his opinion that Taylor died of natural causes, not arsenic poisoning.
Today, the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place for thousands of soldiers.
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Underrated badass of America right here
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That's my cousins great great great grandpa CRAZY right
Isaiah Ferrer im a descendant of Robert e Lee and he is a distant cousin of Taylor so hello family
Isaiah Ferrer Zachary is my cousin
That is my biological great great great great great grandpa....super CRAZY!
Isaiah Ferrer I’m related somehow as well ! I have relatives in Pana Illinois that have a lot of Taylor’s there
Yo boi Carson some of the same dna lol so typically yes
R.I.P
Zachary Taylor
1784 - 1850
bit late for that
@@patrickbateman8622 Better late than never....
Bro I’m still alive you know that right
I’m just trying to cover up my real name
He was a slave owner
THE. VERY. GOOD. MAN. OF. THE. AMERICA. MISTER. TAYLOR. 😊😊😊😊😊😊
He must have had the same doctor as my dad , god rest his soul , left this earth in 2006 .
Cherries and milk, Yum!
My name is Kevin Taylor from Alabama. Zachary Taylor is my fathers great great great great great cousin. Our family line runs rich all the way back to the 10 century in England taking place with Kings and religious leaders. Including the Knights Templar.
I want to learn more from direct relatives I believe my GG grandmother was Zachary Taylor’s illegitimate niece in Kentucky.
i used him for my president report!!
Why the hell is everyone related to Zachary Taylor
he my great great great great uncle
Great Man, big fan
Steven L I'm his cousin
He's one of my great uncles.
same
I am pretty sure he is also my Great Great Great Great Uncle. I am African American! My Great Great grandmother-an enslaved woman from Kentucky (who did not look black) claimed to be the niece of his President Taylor's nephew--the founder of the Taylor and Taylor Bourbon company. Her mother was given a great deal of property and money when Mr. Taylor died and she and her nearly white children removed themselves to Kansas.
Tod Roulette Zachary Taylor is my cousin lol
He is my great great great great uncle!
He's my great great great great Grandfather
@@ATP20 love to talk to you about this
omg same he’s my uncle too!!!
Zachary Taylor 12th President
so all of us in this comments section just cousins
These cherries taste funny.
this guys my dad
These comments are hilarious lmao, yall are a riot. 😂
My great grandfather fought under Taylor in Palo Alto.
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He was called Old Rough and Ready, a nickname won as an Indian fighter.
I am related to his mother! So I am related to a president
is my great grandpa
I couldn’t remember when is the inauguration
It was March 4th, but the nowadays it’s January 20th
BRO MY NAME IS ZACHARY TAYLOR
Interesting fellow, mostly-forgotten today.
4:36 Is that the Welsh anthem playing in the background?
Yes it is! “Mae hen wlad fy nhadau. I didn’t notice the 1st time I watched. How random
He is related to me in someway on my great grandmas side
The video fails to mention the marriage of Robert Crooke Wood to one of his daughters.
My family
He was from Virginia
His wife's family owned mine 🤠
Mackall
Dag...no cherries or milk for me.
I am studying him at school
Glitter and Sparkles what school is that
Glitter and Sparkles I'm related to him he is my cousin
My family 2 lol ig we are a big family 😅
The only president to claim our state, Louisiana, as his home state. He was principled and refused to agree to the Compromise of 1850. Instead he advised that if South Carolina tried to secede, he’d hang those leading the secession efforts; Taylor advised he’d start w his son in law Jeff Davis
My Grandmother was a Taylor direct family member. So someway I am related to all of the persons who make the same claim below. You also may not know this but You are also maybe Blackfoot Indian . Swan Jones and Taylor`s great grand daughter had taken vows in a marriage . Swan being half Blackfoot . Some said no way but a bible showed up and there was proof and they had two children twins. A boy and a girl. Any real documents went up in flames in the town hall. Heck if You really dig You will also find that the family goes back to Martha Washington her first marriage . Robert E Lee also married Taylor`s great grand daughter . Curtis was her maiden name. There was a Jones first . Kind of a family disgrace or just a secret . CRAZY
Poisoned.
donald taylor
Yes
donald taylor The cherry pits?
I was told that I have a blood line to him and his family
Any reason why you used the Welsh National Anthem as background to Taylor's death? You do know America was named after a Welshman.
I'm jonjon my moms a Autry
Courtesy what you will lose
Abraham Lincoln was born in KY.
Yo boi Carson No, he was buried in Illinois. He was born in Kentucky.
Hey, he was a slaveholder