PRESIDENT ZACHARY TAYLOR'S ADMINISTRATION, AUTOGRAPH BOOK

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Pricing & History
1849-1850. 8vo autograph book, rebound in buckram. Second free endpaper with manuscript President Taylor's Administration, next page with Z. Taylor, third page (numbered 2 in upper corner) with Millard Fillmore, Buffalo, N. York, Oct. 16, 1849 as Vice President (later President, 1850-53). Next comes cabinet and higher appointments: Secretaries of State, War, Navy Interior, Postmaster General, Supreme Court Judges (including Taney, see lot 37 this sale), State Department, Treasury Dept. It goes on down the list, including: Indian Department, General Land Office, War Department, Engineer's, etc. There are several hundred autographs in this book (#100 occurs on page 30), and they are scattered up to page 144. Some pages only have one or two, others have 10 or 12. Most are low-level clerks, but there may well be a few "sleepers" hidden in there! (We count about 540 autographs, approximately.) Riding to the Presidency on his Mexican War record, Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) was of that "breed" so common in early Presidents and politicians - Virginia-born, career military, self-educated. His lifetime in the Army made him a staunch defender of the Union, but he owned plantations in Louisiana and Mississippi, including about 100 slaves. In an early 1850 meeting with southern leaders, "Old Rough and Ready" threatened to personally lead the army read more
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