Brett
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Yes.
So there's a conspiracy theory that he was actually assassinated by Catholics.
It's always the Catholics.
He'd been poisoned either by pro-slavery Southerners or Catholics, and similar theories had persisted into the 21st century.
And then Fillmore became president afterwards.
Fillmore received a letter alleging that Taylor had been poisoned by a Jesuit lay official.
There you go.
So...
Very nice.
And they've apparently, they dug him up, I guess.
They dug him up in 1991 to figure out whether or not he had been murdered.
So there you go.
They dug him up.
They took samples of his hair, fingernails, and other tissues, which apparently he still had after 150 years.
That's pretty good.
And then reburied him.
And they did all sorts of analysis and they did not find any evidence of poisoning.
So there you go.
Huh?
See, any potential recovery was overwhelmed by his doctors.