There was in fact a conspiracy theory at the time that slaveowners infiltrated the White House staff (DC being in the South) and had Zachary Taylor poisoned Not because ZT was an abolitionist - he was, in fact, a slaveowner - but he was a "moderate" against expanding slaveryhttps://twitter.com/baddestmamajama/status/1236000599780388864 …
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Anyway he got his fatal chronic diarrhea from eating cherries *in milk* In an era before pasteurization and modern refrigeration, in notoriously hot, muggy DC, at a time when much of the city was an open sewer (Yes, I know, "you mean right now?", ha ha)
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So a nefarious explanation probably isn't actually necessary, since there was in fact a "stomach bug" that went around the city at the time and hit a lot of his colleagues too and he was just unlucky
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Anyway don't eat unwashed produce or raw milk (The fact that, thanks to organic hipster fads, this stopped being the kind of thing that could happen to a wealthy Washington politician and then started being one again is one of those fun things about history)
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Forca smart guyvyou missed a few details http://Trashinglincoln.blogspot.com
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