Taylor-Fillmore Campaign Medal, 1848

This medallion holds prints of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore, candidates on the 1848 Whig Party presidential ticket. Even though he had never divulged his political leanings, Whigs in the North and South found reasons to back Taylor, a hero of the Mexican-American War. Taylor eventually declared that he was a Whig and defeated Democrat Lewis Cass and Free Soil candidate Martin Van Buren.