William Wallace Smith Bliss
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William Wallace Smith Bliss was a United States Army officer, mathematics professor, and linguist.
Daguerreotype by unknown photographer, c. 1848
Gravestone of William Bliss, Fort Bliss National Cemetery
Zachary Taylor
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Zachary Taylor was the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850. Before his presidency, Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank
William Wallace Smith Bliss
…Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen, Denmark, and an Honorary Member of the American Ethnological Society. Bliss was an aid to then-General Zachary Taylor in Texas from 1845 to 1848, including the duration of the Mexican-American War. In December 1848 he married Mary Elizabeth Taylor, then President-elect…
Taylor c. 1843–45
Taylor by Joseph Henry Bush, c. 1848
Taylor's childhood home in Louisville, Kentucky
Illustration of Taylor's Cypress Grove Plantation on the Mississippi River