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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.