Career As Planter
Having to leave the war because of rheumatoid arthritis, Richard Taylor agreed to manage the family cotton plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi. In 1850, he persuaded his father (then President after being elected in 1848) to purchase "Fashion", a large sugar cane plantation in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. After his father's death in July 1850, Taylor inherited Fashion.
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