In 1991, his body was exhumed from a Louisville cemetery and tested for arsenic poisoning, with negative results.
In 1991, his body was exhumed from a Louisville cemetery and tested for arsenic poisoning, with negative results. A former commander at Fort Harrison, he won his nickname at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee in the Second Seminole War. As a colonel in the Black Hawk War, he met Jefferson Davis, who married his daughter Sarah, and he later won at Monterrey and Buena Vista during the Mexican War. FTP, name this Whig general known as "Old Rough and Ready" whose presidency ended with his 1850 death and the succession of Millard Fillmore.
In 1991, his body was exhumed from a Louisville cemetery and tested for arsenic poisoning, with negative results.
Zachary Taylor