Old Zach cashed in his chips after only a year on the job. I think he had potential, but we would only be guessing.

Old "Fuss 'n Feathers" bravely stood up for the Union during a stormy time, and would have no doubt probably been a good president if he had lived longer; all in all, we could have done worse.

Taylor had little impact on the presidency. And Taylor's months in office did little to delay the Civil War. To his credit, he would have likely used force to preserve the Union even though he was a slaveholder.

Was on the right path, or wrong one considering his path included death... Excuse me Mr. Democratic, but what does that have to do with president Taylor? Please stick to the subject in your comments and rankings.

He killed hundreds of slaves on a ship called the Creole when they revulted aigenst their masters. His own son tried to tear appart our union as a Southern general and Jefferson Daves was married to his daughter Ann.

Who knows?

Caused the Civil War.

Aaaaa. Again, just one more bearded Fat-cat. Better military record than today's 'occupant', so he gets a '3'.

Did not live long enough to be great God Bless him.

He was probably better as a general than president, but since his presidency was cut short we will never know for sure.

Not in office long enough to really accomplish anything.

Patriotic butcher that attempted to take land from Mexico that did not rightfully belong to the United States. The Mexican War is one of many hidden atrocities that many don't know about.

Zachary Taylor was not president for that long, but he was an execeptional general in the Mexican-American War. His short presidency was actually during a very critical time in our history. The years before the Civil War were very charged; debates between North and South and East and West were occuring. I honestly think that the entire period during the mid-1800's was the "growing pains" of a new nation. It's very difficult to govern a country with many competeing interests. To make matters worse, America, as a fledging democracy, had no other country to follow in example. Our leaders were playing it by ear. It's funny to note that there was a high turnover rate with presidents during the 1850's. Either they died like Taylor or they chose not to be in the national debate, like Pierce. Nobody really wanted to be president because everyone knew that eventually some really hard decisions would have had to have been made. In my honest opinion, Presidents Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan never could nor had the desire to go with "their gut". Lincoln made the tough decisions that had to be made to preserve the Union. More than likely, had anyone of the following three presidents had been in the White House instead of Lincoln, we might have a Confederate States of America. Taylor may have been a good intermediary, since he was a Southerner and was kind of neutral concerning slavery. He was also very popular in both the North and the South due to his performance during the Mexican-American War. He may have been able to avert the Civil War by making the tough decisions only a general could make. Unfortunately, the Civil War did come to pass.

Zach is a nonentity he is pretty much unknown and didnt do anything.

Not in office long enough to do much .

BigJJ makes me laugh. Not good enough for such a high rating.

Too low key in a time that called for greatness, was not Taylored for the job.