But seasoned war veteran Zachary Taylor emerged from the ... His performance in the Seminole War won Taylor the rank of brigadier general. In 1845 President James K. Polk sent Taylor with a ...

Zachary Taylor ... in the Mexican-American War to enter the country as slaveholder states. This issue resulted in the Compromise of 1850 (signed after Taylor’s presidency) and inaugurated a decade in ...

Some saw this as a betrayal of the Monroe Doctrine. General Zachary Taylor, a hero of the Mexican War, was an ideal Whig candidate — a military hero (appealing to Northerners), a slave-holder ...