ZACHARY TAYLOR (W) - 1849-1850
He might have been a better president had he lived. Although a slave-owner himself, the 12th President was against expanding slavery, using the excuse that cotton and sugar wouldn't grow weel out west. He encouraged the peoples of California, Utah and New Mexico to draft state constitutions in anticipant of statehood, correctly believing they'd be against slavery.
His greatest knock has to be that he picked Millard Fillmore as his vice-president and then died 16 months into his term. Fillmore reversed some of his stances which led the US down the inevitable road to the Civil War.
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