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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 …

…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