Leonidas Polk was born in April of 1806 and grew up in North Carolina. He came from a wealthy family (Leonidas Polk) who had a bloodline of generals in the Revolutionary War. Along with being tied to the University of North Carolina, his family also had connections at West Point Military Academy. Polk would later start his military career by joining West point, but would eventually become a pastor (HistoryNet).
After his move to Cincinnati, he developed a reputation as an abolitionist lawyer. In his home life, he had married three wives, all whom had died very young. He had two daughters, the oldest of which was Kate and had stayed home to help Chase with his
He gained national fame after winning the Battle of New Orleans. Later on in his life Jackson earned the nickname "Old Hickory” because he was a good solider that possessed both good sense and toughness, but was also ruthless, killing soldiers that deserted their posts and he felt Indians where inferior people. He was a war hero I'm everyones eyes. When he went to run for president in 1824, he lost to John Quincy Adams, but won in 1828 and soon after the whole county could out he had a then-adulterous relationship with his wife Rachel. And this news was allover newspapers, say she was a shameless woman and how can someone like her be in the white house.
So Richard Taylor left his wife and their two sons in Virginia for seven months while he cleared land and prepared their new frontier. While he was gone, his new son Zachary Taylor was born on November 24, 1784 in Orange County, Virginia and they soon completed their expedition west to arrive at their new small wooden home on August 2, 1785. While they lived there, they gained more wealth and by 1800, they owned ten thousand acres of land, twenty-six slaves, and moved to a somewhat larger house of
While President Zachary Taylor was in office, the issue of slavery dominated. Taylor encouraged New Mexico and California to write legal status of slavery into their constitutions. The compromise of 1850 allowed California to be admitted into the union, as undivided and a free state on September 9 of 1850. President Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States who was part of the Whig political party; he once served as a soldier then as an officer against our nations battle from the Mexican- American war. The Mexicans army under General Santa Anna whose army was close to 20,000 was defeated at Buena Vista by American troops lead by Taylor whose army was 6,000.
On june 21, 1910 he married Margaret Mackall Smith. Zachary Taylor fought in the Mexican War which made him popular to northerners when the time came for the election. Zachary Taylor coming from a family of slave owners appealed to the southern voters. He was nominated to oppose
John Taylor John Taylor (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845). He was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with William Henry Harrison, and became president after his running mate 's death in April 1841. Tyler was known as a supporter of states ' rights, which endeared him to his fellow Virginians, yet his acts as president showed that he was willing to support nationalist policies as long as they did not infringe on the rights of the states. Still, the circumstances of his unexpected rise to the presidency and his possible threat to the ambitions of other potential presidential candidates left him estranged from both major parties in Washington. A firm believer in manifest
After he was allowed to lead a company into combat, we was greatly credited for his bravery under fire. Also, he felt that the Mexican-American War was wrong and that it was only being fought to increase the slavery territory. After a 4 year engagement, he finally married Julia in 1848. Following, in 1852, he was sent to Fort Vancouver, in a place now known as Washington State. He deeply missed his family, and ended up joining failed business attempts to get his family out by him.
Ulysses S. Grant (birth name: Hiram Ulysses Grant) was born on April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio to Jesse R. Grant and Hannah Simpson. The Grant family moved around a lot and Ulysses describes his childhood as an “uneventful” one. Ulysses father, Jesse, organized a way that Ulysses could enter the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York at the age of seventeen. After graduating from the academy, Grant was stationed in St. Louis, Missouri, where he met his future wife, Julia Dent.
He became very famous during the United States Civil War. From a very early age, he was
His wife had 11 kids and he treated all of them like they were his own. Even though she wasn't properly divorced from her previous husband. He was very tough and strict which gave him the name “old hickory”. He is also on the $20 bill. The capital of mississippi is named after him.
Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 on March 15th near North and South Carolina. He grew up in poverty since his father died before his birth, and he lived in an impoverished rural area near North and South Carolina. At the age of 14 he was orphaned due to his mother’s death from a disease contracted while taking care of sick and wounded soldiers during the Revolutionary War. Andrew Jackson studied law in his later teenage years in Salisbury, North Carolina, leading to his appointment as prosecuting attorney of western North Carolina. Additionally, Andrew Jackson was one of the first elected representatives for Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives.
Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 in the Carolinas. He was not raised a privileged boy and therefor his education suffered; however, in his teens he became interested
Born on October 2, 1800 in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner was born into slavery. He spent his entire life on Southampton County, where slaves made up most of the population. After interpreted signs that he got from God in 1831, he planned and led a riot against slave owners. He led a group of slaves on a slave rebellion, a rebellion more violent than any other rebellion led by a black person in history. Killing almost any white person seen or encountered, this uprising caused terror across the Southern United States.
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