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2. Zachary Taylor (1784 – 1850) – the 12th President of the United States in 1849 – 1850 from the Whig Party. A hero of the Mexican War, died 16 months after being elected president. From 1808 on military service, participated in the extermination expedition against the Indians, the war with Mexico (1846-1848), etc. All these victories created such popularity for him that the Whig Party offered him a candidacy for the presidency of the United States, although he had not previously held any political positions. As president, Taylor tried to stand above minor party interests, but his health was undermined during Indian campaigns (he often had malaria), and he died (possibly from dysentery or typhus) in the second year of his presidency. The opinion that he was poisoned with arsenic was not confirmed during the exhumation and chemical examination of Taylor's remains in 1991. As president, he opposed radical supporters of the spread of slavery. The second president of the United States, who did not hold any other state post before entering the White House (the first was the founder of the state, George Washington). Taylor was also the last Southern president elected before Woodrow Wilson in 1912.
3. Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) – the 16th President of the United States. In 1860 and 1864, Abraham Lincoln was elected president. On April 9, 1865, the army of the Southerners, who fought the army of Lincoln, under the command of General Lee, capitulated, and on April 14, 1865, Lincoln went with his family to the play "Our American cousin", Extremist Wilkie Booth, picking up the moment when all attention was focused on the stage, approached the president and lined up behind the utor in the head Then he jumped on stage, shouting: "Sic semper tyra
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