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Winfield Scott, American Army General

Scott, American Army General, 1847. Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 - May 29, 1866) was a US Army general. He served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history. Over the course of his 47 year career, he commanded forces in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Black Hawk War, the Second Seminole War, and, briefly, the American Civil War, conceiving the Union strategy known as the Anaconda Plan that would be used to defeat the Confederacy. A national hero after the Mexican-American War, he served as military governor of Mexico City. Such was his stature that, in 1852, the Whig Party passed over its own incumbent President Millard Fillmore, to nominate Scott in that year's presidential election. At a height of 6'5", he remains the tallest man ever nominated by a major party. Scott lost to Democrat Franklin Pierce in the general election, but remained a popular national figure, receiving a brevet promotion in 1856 to the rank of lieutenant general, becoming the first American since George Washington to hold that rank. He lived to see the Union victory in the Civil War and died in 1866 at the age of 79. He is buried in West Point Cemetery.
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Winfield Scott, American Army General
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Scott, American Army General, 1847. Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 - May 29, 1866) was a US Army general. He served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history. Over the course of his 47 year career, he commanded forces in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Black Hawk War, the Second Seminole War, and, briefly, the American Civil War, conceiving the Union strategy known as the Anaconda Plan that would be used to defeat the Confederacy. A national hero after the Mexican-American War, he served as military governor of Mexico City. Such was his stature that, in 1852, the Whig Party passed over its own incumbent President Millard Fillmore, to nominate Scott in that year's presidential election. At a height of 6'5", he remains the tallest man ever nominated by a major party. Scott lost to Democrat Franklin Pierce in the general election, but remained a popular national figure, receiving a brevet promotion in 1856 to the rank of lieutenant general, becoming the first American since George Washington to hold that rank. He lived to see the Union victory in the Civil War and died in 1866 at the age of 79. He is buried in West Point Cemetery.
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