By John S. D. Eisenhower,Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,Sean Wilentz
The rough-hewn basic who rose to the nation's maximum workplace, and whose presidency witnessed the 1st political skirmishes that might bring about the Civil War
Zachary Taylor was once a soldier's soldier, a guy who lived as much as his nickname, "Old tough and Ready." Having risen during the ranks of the U.S. military, he completed his maximum good fortune within the Mexican battle, propelling him to the nation's maximum workplace within the election of 1848. He was once the 1st guy to were elected president with no need held a reduce political office.
John S. D. Eisenhower, the son of one other soldier-president, indicates how Taylor rose to the presidency, the place he faced the main contentious political factor of his age: slavery. The political hurricane reached a crescendo in 1849, while California, newly populated after the Gold Rush, utilized for statehood with an anti- slavery structure, an occasion that disenchanted the fragile stability of slave and unfastened states and driven each side to the edge. because the acrimonious debate intensified, Taylor stood his floor in desire of California's admission—despite being a slaveholder himself—but in July 1850 he all at once took ailing, and inside per week he was once lifeless. His truncated presidency had uncovered the fateful rift that will quickly tear the rustic apart.
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