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TAYLOR, Zachary. Autograph letter signed ("Z. Taylor"), AS PRESIDENT-ELECT, to L. F. Brown, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 16 January 1849. 1 page, 4to, integral blank trimmed away.
A VICTORIOUS TAYLOR GRANTS A FAVOR, IN THE WAKE OF "MY ELEVATION TO THE FIRST OFFICE" AS "THE GIFT OF A GREAT AND FREE PEOPLE..."
Taylor delights in the high honor of winning election to the Presidency in this letter to an autograph seeker written less than two months prior to Taylor's inauguration. Brown, of Plattsburg, N.Y. tells Taylor that he is a "true Whig" and is compiling a collection of "autographs from the principal men of our glorious United States." He hopes the newly elected Whig president will add his autograph to Brown's "cabinet of curiosities." The "request," Taylor writes, "is with much pleasure complied with. For the compliment intended me by associating my humble name with those of the principle men of our Country in your collection of autographs, as well as for the interest you took in my elevation to the first office in the gift of a great and free people, and I may well say the first in the world..."
Interestingly, Taylor signs himself as "Major General, U. S. Army." The Whig Party may have began as an opposition force against the great military hero, Andrew Jackson, but their only two successful Presidential candidates, William Henry Harrison and Taylor, were both soldiers. Taylor, indeed, won his glory during the Mexican War which the Whigs generally opposed. Like Harrison, Taylor died in office, surviving just over a year into his term.
A VICTORIOUS TAYLOR GRANTS A FAVOR, IN THE WAKE OF "MY ELEVATION TO THE FIRST OFFICE" AS "THE GIFT OF A GREAT AND FREE PEOPLE..."
Taylor delights in the high honor of winning election to the Presidency in this letter to an autograph seeker written less than two months prior to Taylor's inauguration. Brown, of Plattsburg, N.Y. tells Taylor that he is a "true Whig" and is compiling a collection of "autographs from the principal men of our glorious United States." He hopes the newly elected Whig president will add his autograph to Brown's "cabinet of curiosities." The "request," Taylor writes, "is with much pleasure complied with. For the compliment intended me by associating my humble name with those of the principle men of our Country in your collection of autographs, as well as for the interest you took in my elevation to the first office in the gift of a great and free people, and I may well say the first in the world..."
Interestingly, Taylor signs himself as "Major General, U. S. Army." The Whig Party may have began as an opposition force against the great military hero, Andrew Jackson, but their only two successful Presidential candidates, William Henry Harrison and Taylor, were both soldiers. Taylor, indeed, won his glory during the Mexican War which the Whigs generally opposed. Like Harrison, Taylor died in office, surviving just over a year into his term.