USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The second American president to die in office, Zachary Taylor, died on July 9, 1850, from acute gastroenteritis.

Detailed explanation-2: -Zachary Taylor’s presidency was too short-lived to have substantially impacted the office or the nation. He is not remembered as a great President. Most historians believe that he was too nonpolitical in a day when politics, parties, and presidential leadership demanded close ties with political operatives.

Detailed explanation-3: -The issue of slavery dominated Taylor’s presidency, as it did those of his mid-nineteenth century successors. Taylor encouraged New Mexico and California to seek statehood, bypassing the territorial stage, and to write the legal status of slavery into their state constitutions.