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under President .... In 1840, Davis first became involved in politics when he 
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Army of... [DOC] [TLE] Ulysses S. Grant - Wikipedia [PAR] Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States (186977). As 
Commanding General of the United States Army (186469), Grant ... Twice 
elected president, Grant led the Republicans in their effort to remove the vestiges 
... from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, served in the MexicanAmerican 
War and... [DOC] [TLE] Robert E. Lee - Wikipedia [PAR] Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807  October 12, 1870) was an American 
general known ... War, Lee served as a senior military adviser to President 
Jefferson Davis. ... Lee surrendered his entire army to Ulysses S. Grant at 
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did more than Grant or any other general to win the war for the Union. .... As 
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Jefferson Davis,... [DOC] [TLE] Jefferson Davis - Civil War Trust [PAR] Jefferson Finis Davis, the first and only President of the Confederate States of ... 
at Transylvania before entering the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1824. 
... He went on to serve briefly in the Black Hawk War in 1832. ... He was offered a 
promotion to brigadier general in 1847 but refused it when he was elected to the
... [DOC] [TLE] Robert E. Lee - Civil War Trust [PAR] Biography of General Robert E. Lee - including history articles, links, ... in the 
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under his... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Abraham Lincoln, a most unlikely military man" [PAR] Jefferson Davis n September, 1863, two months after the Northern victories at ... 
that Lincoln came to outshine Davis as a war President and commander-in-chief. 
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not approve of the marriage and Davis ended up resigning from the military and 
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Lincoln. ... In 1847, elected to the U.S. Senate, Davis became chairman of the 
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two had developed a mutual admiration while serving together in the ... Ulysses S
. Grant, who became general in chief of the Union Army in March 1864. ... into 
Virginia  and pivotal Confederate victories, again under Lee,... [DOC] [TLE] Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief | Ashbrook [PAR] Indeed, by all measures, the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis would ... In 
contrast, Lincoln had served as a captain of

Question: Lincoln, Grant & Jefferson Davis served in the military under this general who became president
Answer: Zachary Taylor