Zachary Taylor was our 12th President. However, Taylor was nominated to be president by the Whig Party and didn’t find out until weeks later. The Whig Party saw how he was a War Hero and slave owner, so he could win the votes of the people in the North and South. His presidency lasted for 16 months, from 1849 to 1850, which is also when he died. As he took his position, he was soon launched into the nation’s major problem; slavery and how the countries’ new states. To be more specific, when a new state was entered into the Union, there was debate on if that state would be a “free state” or “slave state”. After years in the army, Taylor had come to disapprove of new slave states, leading him to admit California and New Mexico immediately into