The main parallel begins with Zachary Taylor’s converting his fame as a Mexican-American War hero into commandeering the Whig Party — despite boasting about never having voted before.

Zachary Taylor was the reluctant candidate of the Whig Party, which nominated him purely on his reputation as a hero of the Mexican–American War. He defeated Democrat Lewis Cass. The election was ...

General Zachary Taylor, a hero of the Mexican War ... In a three-way race against the Democrat Lewis Cass and the Free Soil Party candidate Martin Van Buren, Taylor won a narrow victory over ...

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Fillmore, in extending his patronage, replaced Zachary Taylor supporters with his own supporters, alienating a substantial faction of his party. This caused him to be denied re-nomination by the Whigs ...

Millard Fillmore, who assumed the presidency in 1850 upon the death of Zachary Taylor, was the last president from the Whig party. Fillmore sought reelection in 1852, but the Whig ...

Soldiers from Fort Knox paid tribute to President Zachary Taylor in Louisville Monday. They laid a wreath at his gravesite at the national cemetery in Louisville that bears his name. Sunday marked ...

A Mexican-American War hero, Zachary Taylor made it to the White House without being elected to any previous public office. Taylor earned the nickname “Old Rough and Ready” because he was ...

But seasoned war veteran Zachary Taylor emerged from the Mexican War ... Among those were the leadership of the Whig Party, which nominated him as their presidential candidate in 1848.