From Find-A-Grave.
ZACHARY TAYLOR
BIRTH: 24 November 1784 Orange, Virginia
DEATH: 9 July 1850 (age 65)
BURIAL: Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky
He was the last U.S. President to own slaves while in office.
His youngest child and only son, Richard Taylor, was a Confederate general during the Civil War and his second child, Sarah Knox Taylor, married future Confederate President Jefferson Davis in 1835, but died of malaria shortly after their marriage.
--Old Secesh
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