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« on: September 15, 2019, 11:10:48 AM » |
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People often discuss what would have happened if Abe Lincoln, FDR and Jack Kennedy lived on, but what about the 12th President, Zachary Taylor, who died in 1850? Thinking about him living on poses some interesting questions: Would the civil war have started ten years earlier? He was opposed the Compromise of 1850, which would not have been enacted into law if Taylor didn't die. Taylor opposed an expansion of slavery even though he was a slave owner; and he even threatened to hang southerners trying to seccede. Would have have won reelection in 1852? What would have happened to the Whig Party?
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