Ruler · 1784 – 1850

Zachary Taylor

Lived 1784 – 1850; statesperson, politician, military officer. President of the United States (United States), 1849 – 1850.

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Lived: 1784 – 1850; 66 years
In office: 1 year; one reign
Lines: 1; United States
Left it: died in office; Wikidata's manner of death

President of the United States

United States · the 13th of 48 dated reigns · 1789 – 2025

9 before

William Henry Harrison1841

John Tyler1841 – 1845

James K. Polk1845 – 1849

Zachary Taylor1849 – 1850

Millard Fillmore1850 – 1853

Franklin Pierce1853 – 1857

James Buchanan1857 – 1861

32 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1849 – 1850 · 1 year · came to it aged 65

Came to it: elected
Left it: died in officeWikidata's manner of death: natural causes; cholera; gastroenteritis

the term records: death in office

He won the general election alongside New York politician Millard Fillmore, defeating Democratic Party nominees Lewis Cass and William Orlando Butler, as well as a third-party effort led by former president Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams Sr. of the Free Soil Party.

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