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 ...

the second and last elected Whig president, Zachary Taylor. I suspect we disagree less than that chain of responses would imply. There is much to recommend in his caution that Trump could do to ...

General Zachary Taylor, a hero of the Mexican War, was an ideal Whig candidate — a military ... the Democrat Lewis Cass and the Free Soil Party candidate Martin Van Buren, Taylor won a narrow ...

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 ...

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.