Both James K. Polk and Zachary Taylor, according to McHugh and Mackowiak, suffered through severe gastroenteritis, and the duo theorizes it was the same enteric fever as Harrison’s. Polk ...

10 people have died inside the White House in the 218-year history of the building. The list includes two presidents — William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor. Three first ladies and one first ...

Zachary Taylor was the third of four Whig presidents. ... He was also the second president to die in office, preceded by William Henry Harrison, who had died nine years earlier.

The official cause of death for William Henry Harrison went ... This now seems almost certain to be the source of the diseases that killed subsequent presidents James K. Polk and Zachary Taylor ...

The cold William Henry Harrison caught during his inauguration may not have been what killed him. ... Zachary Taylor, elected in in 1848, succumbed to gastroenteritis while still in office.

Taylor did his best in good faith to discharge the office in difficult times (the Compromise of 1850 barely avoided a civil war that would arrive a decade later) and died with his work unfinished.

Johnson is one of four presidents that did not appoint any Supreme Court Justices. The others are William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, and Jimmy Carter. President Andrew Johnson.