Hi everybody. Today. Bye, mommy. It's going to talk about. Zachary. Taylor. Thank you, Noah, for introducing

Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States. Like six of the 11 presidents before him,

Zachary Taylor was born in Virginia. It is remarkable that so many of our 11 presidents before him, Zachary Taylor was born in Virginia.

It is remarkable that so many of our earliest presidents were born in Virginia.

However, only one president in the 170 years since

Zachary Taylor was president has been from Virginia.

Zachary Taylor had no formal education and spent his early years helping his father on the

family farm. Zachary's father, Richard, served as lieutenant colonel under George Washington during

the Revolutionary War. For his service, Richard was given 6,000 acres of land in Kentucky.

The Taylors would spend all of their time farming on their Kentucky plantation.

In the year 1806, Zachary Taylor joined the militia and started making his way up the ranks

of the military service.

He was awarded the rank of first lieutenant

by his second cousin, who just happened to be the Secretary of State James Madison, shortly

before Madison would become the fourth president of the United States. Zachary Taylor fought valiantly

for the United States for 40 years and would become a national

hero for his victories in the Mexican-American War. He was promoted to Major General during that

war, but he was just as proud of a nickname he had earned over his decades of fighting for the country. The nickname he was

given by fellow soldiers was old, rough, and ready. Zachary Taylor was never interested in politics,

but his popularity pushed him towards the White House. Taylor never voted in an election or even registered to vote. Nobody knew his

opinion on major issues of the time or even seemed to care. The Whig party nominated him,

and he managed to win the election of 1848 by a small margin. Although he received support from the Whigs, he didn't return the favor as he vowed to

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