Zachary Taylor was the twelfth President of the United States. He was a very interesting person. He was a crook, a gambler, a drunkard, and had a very short temper. One source claimed that ¡§seeing Zachary Taylor sober was something few people could claim to have done.¡¨ A short time after Taylor was born in 1784, he was given the peculiar nickname ¡§muskrat head¡¨. The exact story behind this nickname has since been lost. Taylor was …showed first 75 words of 843 total…

…showed last 75 words of 843 total…greatest indignity happened after his death. Due to a mix up at the cemetery, his grave was crowned with the wrong tombstone. The one over his grave belonged to a Belgian Merchant with the last name Mouskrat. This name was French for, you guessed it: muskrat. Sources: „h http://wfmu.org/~davem/docs/ztaylor.html „h http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH.glimpse/presidents/html/zt12.html „h http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/ztaylor.html