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  Millard Fillmore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the last member of the Whig Party to hold that office.
Fillmore was born in poverty to Nathaniel Fillmore and Phoebe Millard Fillmore in Summerhill, New York as the second of nine children and the eldest son.
Fillmore was one of the founders of the University of Buffalo.
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 Millard Fillmore - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth (1850–1853) President of the United States and the second President to succeed to the office from the Vice Presidency on the death of the predecessor.
Fillmore was born in extreme poverty to Nathaniel Fillmore and Phoebe Millard in Summerhill, New York as the second of eight children and eldest son.
Thus the sudden ascension of Fillmore to the Presidency in July 1850 brought an abrupt political shift in the administration.
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 Pakistan encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Pakistan politics and officials, Pakistan History. Travel to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the nation's highest office.
Fillmore was born in extreme poverty to Nathaniel Fillmore and Phoebe Millard Fillmore in Summerhill, New York as the second of eight children and eldest son.
Fillmore was elected as a Whig to the 23rd Congress (1833-1835); elected to the 25th, 26th and 27th Congresses (1837-1843).
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 Fillmore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Millard Fillmore, the thirteenth President of the United States.
Charles Fillmore, one of the founders of the Unity Church.
Charles J. Fillmore, linguist, (co-)inventor of Case Theory and Construction Grammar.
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 Scott's - Utah Fast Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In 1872 George and Rhoda Snyder named the area "Parley's Park City" Unfortunately for Pratt's legacy, it was the latter of the two names that stuck when silver was discovered in the mountains.
By 1871, the name was official as the railroad station in town was named the "Sandy Station".
Springdale got it's name from the wife of Albert Petty, the first settler of Springdale, he took his wife to a place he had selected by a large spring and asked her to name it.
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 deseretnews.com | Millard: ATV trails and lots more
The county is, in fact, a textbook of Utah history, starting with the fact that Fillmore was once the center of government for what was the State of Deseret, which would later be transformed into the state of Utah.
Fireworks explode at the Territorial Statehouse, built in 1855 and 1856, in Fillmore during Utah's statehood centennial in 1996.
Surrounding it are a number of small towns — Salina and Aurora to the north; Cove Fort, Fillmore and Beaver to the west; Circleville and Kingston to the south; and Fremont, Loa and Bicknell to the east.
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 JS Online:Fillmore celebrating its 150th
The hamlet of Fillmore in the northeast corner of Washington County is throwing a party celebrate its sesquicentennial next weekend.
Fillmore, population 350, is located at the intersection of Highways H and M. The community is about nine miles northeast of West Bend or six miles west of Fredonia.
Fillmore was named after Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States, said Chris Borchert, curator of collections and exhibits for the Washington County Historical Society.
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 UBT: The faces behind the facades
Crosby Hall was named by the University Council in honor of the contributions of Mr.
In naming the building after Robert L. Ketter, UB president from 1970 to 1982, an exception was made to the rule to not name campus buildings after living individuals.
The Lockwood Memorial Library name was placed on the new library, in recognition of the original endowment.
www.buffalo.edu /UBT/UBT-archives/25_ubtw04/features   (3442 words)

  
 KSL Editorials - 1996
Fillmore was the territorial capitol for a time, because it was near the center of Utah Territory.
The name comes from a tribe of Indians and their chief, called "San Pitch" or "Sam Pitch." Locals transformed it into the single word, Sanpete, when the County was created in 1850.
The name is probably a distortion of "tules," which grow abundantly in the eastern wetlands.
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 Franklin Pierce - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
He purchased the area now comprising southern Arizona and part of southern New Mexico for $10,000,000 (USD), commonly known as the Gadsden Purchase.
Douglas, to win Southern support for the organization of Nebraska, placed in his bill a provision declaring the Missouri Compromise null and void.
Douglas provided in his bills that the residents of the new territories could decide the slavery question for themselves.
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 NPR : The Dumping of the President -- and the VP
Roosevelt's role in the dumping of Wallace at the 1944 convention is still murky, but it seems clear that he was not especially keen on running again with Wallace, who was seen as too liberal for many in the party and outwardly hostile to Southern conservatives.
Ford then named Nelson Rockefeller as his vice president; it was the first time the nation had an unelected president and vice president.
While there is no question that his comments placed him on the left-wing of the political spectrum, his platform included calling for strict punishments for improper grammar.
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 Minnesota peee.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The name Minnesota is from the Lakota#The Dakota name for the Minnesota River, mini sota, which means smoky-white water or sky-tinted water.
The full list of governors, and the dates they took office, is available at List of Governors of Minnesota.
The 71 List of Minnesota state parks which protect diverse landscapes in a state of nature are quite popular.
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 The Political Graveyard: Fillmore County, Minn.
This site only lists about 5,000 cemeteries where politicians are known to have been buried (the number grows gradually as more research is done).
The intent is to locate places according to current county names and boundaries.
The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
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 Douglas' Dive
There was no official street address, the 1855 city directory listing the location of Dug's Dive as a "recess" at the corner of Commercial and Water Street.
One example was Buffalo's own fugitive slave case of 1851, wherein a man named Daniel Davis, working on a Lake Erie steamer, was arrested at the dock at the foot of Commercial Street (where in later years the Canadiana, the "Crystal Beach Boat," was docked) within two hundred feet or so of the Union Block.
A large force of police fought their way in and rescued a large number of men from "the Douglas dive" who were taken to jail for their own protection.
www.math.buffalo.edu /~sww/0history/DouglasDive.html   (1387 words)

  
 Fillmore County, Nebraska NE, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Fillmore County, NE The county was named for President Millard Fillmore
Fillmore County is one of 93 counties in Nebraska.
This was a decrease of -2.59% from the 2000 census.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=22387   (410 words)

  
 Lecture: April 20, 1999, The Party System
His name is probably the least known except maybe in San Francisco.
It's funny, I have a list of various sports that president's participated in and when you see Millard Fillmore, the sport listed is nothing.
The real kicker was watching what the party, you know, you always cross off names of people who vote and near the end of the day when they saw who had voted and who hadn't, they began to send out the taxicab drivers.
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 Millard 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Provide the name (FandL) of the former NFL player who coined the term "Hail Mary" to describe a desperation long pass usually thrown as time is running out at the end of a game.
Provide the name of the first submarine to sink an enemy warship, the name of the warship sunk and the date of the historic event.
You must be able to show that the person named was in fact awarded the medal indicated; and that the signature is that of the person identified as medal recipient.
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 Text Only Version -- Asheville, North Carolina: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
This travel itinerary highlights 45 historic places listed in the National Register of Historic Places that explore the development of Asheville and Buncombe County as an area of world-class resorts and mountain retreats.
Using places nominated by State, Federal and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices and listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the itineraries help potential visitors plan their next trip by highlighting the amazing diversity of this country's historic places and supplying accessibility information for each featured site.
Montford was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and in 1981 the Asheville City Council designated Montford as a local historic district.
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 elias85's Xanga Site
She was able to tell me the scientific name of every animal at the phuket aquarium.
I ate with my friend Lydia, her friend Amelia, a guy on the trip named Cody, and a BSU German professor and her husband (who are the coolest people over 40 on the trip.) We kicked back and had a wonderful time.
One of the leaders, a young 23 year old graduate student named Bung was glad that we were enjoying her "crib".
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 The City of Hollywood, Florida - Records and Archives Divison
Over the years, additional street names were added in new neighborhoods and developments, and in areas that were annexed to Hollywood.
On old numbered streets in annexed areas of West Hollywood, names were changed to those that continued from the east.
There are a number of streets named after early Florida state and territorial governors, important local figures, famous golfers in Emerald Hills, authors in Sheridan Lakes, real estate developers in downtown and western Hollywood, explorers, etc.
www.hollywoodfl.org /records_archives/ARC.asp?DeptN=ARC&PageX=streets   (2160 words)

  
 Historic Linwood Cemetery
Please note that not all of the names listed below are buried within Linwood Cemetery.
Some of the names are listed as references in obituaries of those buried within Linwood Cemetery.
The names listed on this web page are from the Linwood Cemetery Index of Names compiled and published by Dolores Autry (c) 1994.
www.knology.net /~cgautry/linwood.html   (809 words)

  
 Special Collections -- Library of Congress Geography and Maps: An Illustrated Guide
Hand-drawn on animal skins of parchment or vellum without borders and generally lacking titles and legends, they are characterized by a profusion of place names lettered perpendicular to the coastlines and an intersecting system of radiating lines and compass roses.
One of three original maps depicting the maritime explorations of the coasts of the United States, this historical chart of the Atlantic Coast was compiled by the German geographer Johann Georg Kohl in 1856 for the U.S. Coast Survey.
Included are topographic sketch maps showing the approximate terrain or routes of potential conflict, maps depicting the theater of military operations, order-of-battle maps showing the location of command units, strategic maps used in the planning and execution of campaigns, and commercial and newspaper maps designed to persuade and inform the public.
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 New York: Map, History and Much More From Answers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Among the places of historic interest in the state under federal administration (see National Parks and Monuments, table) are those at Hyde Park, with the burial place of Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Vanderbilt Mansion.
In 1850, Millard Fillmore became the second New Yorker to be President of the United States; the first was Martin Van Buren (1837–41).
East of Manhattan extends the appropriately named Long Island, stretching approximately 120 miles (190 km) from Kings (Brooklyn) and Queens Counties (part of New York City) on the western end to Orient and Montauk Points in the rural "East End" of the Island.
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 FMC Magazine - May 2003 The Best Of Buffalo — And Beyond
More development took place after a land company purchased the area in 1800, and the planned settlement was to be named New Amsterdam.
A short list of places to see, in addition to the falls, includes the Aquarium of Niagara, with sea lions, sharks, penguins, and countless fish; the Prospect Point Observation Tower in Prospect Park; and popular boat tours that take you close to the falls.
A National Historic Landmark house built and occupied by President Millard Fillmore, and furnished and decorated to fit the 1826 era, is at 24 Shearer Ave.
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 Alcatraz--World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
By 1826 the name Alcatraz was applied to the island--it was also applied to the island that later became Yerba Buena.
At the end of the Mexican California era, an exception was made by the Mexican authorities to the usual rule of government control of coastal islands, and title to the island was granted to one Julian Workman, a naturalized Mexican, on condition that he establish a navigation light there.
The need for Fremont to have purchased the island was therefore disavowed, and the matter became a series of legal actions by Fremont and his heirs until the 1890s.
www.cr.nps.gov /NR/travel/wwIIbayarea/alc.htm   (1184 words)

  
 Hodgson Russ tops Buffalo firms with most attorneys named in The Best Lawyers in America 2005-06 — ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The list is compiled through an exhaustive peer-review survey in which thousands of the top lawyers in the United States confidentially evaluate their professional peers.
Thirty-one Hodgson Russ attorneys were recently named in The Best Lawyers in America, with twenty-nine of those attorneys listed under the Firm’s Buffalo headquarters.
It is one of approximately 100 firms in the country listed in America’s Greatest Places to Work With a Law Degree.
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 6.3. Presidential Lists
The list shows assassinated presidents, as well as those who survived assassination attempts.
The Presidents by Height and BMI A list of the presidents in order of height, also showing the Body Mass Index, if known.
List of U.S. Presidents who either served in the Navy, were Secretary of the Navy, or in some other way had an affiliation with the Navy.
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 Millard, Wisconsin WI, profile (Walworth County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Millard, WI Millard is in Walworth County, in the Whitewater metro area.
The community was named after President Millard Fillmore
Sections below provide additional information and links about Millard travel and tourism, nearby airports, cemeteries, the Walworth County economy, education, environment, genealogy, government, historic sites, libraries, maps, museums, newspapers and other media, nonprofit groups, real estate, recreation, religion, transportation, and weather.
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 ROCHESTER NEWS | Extra | Finger Lakes
Owasco is named after the Native Americans who lived on these shores 1,000 years ago, before the Iroquois.
Although off the beaten track, the little lake has attracted a number of famous Americans -- abolitionist Harriet Tubman, U.S. President Millard Fillmore and William Seward, a former state governor and Cabinet member under Lincoln; their homes now are tourist attractions.
New York state has Cayuga County on a list of places it is marketing to computer chip manufacturers who want to build new factories.
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 Hangin' with Mr. Cooper TV Show - Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Television Show - TV.com
Their relationship was strictly platonic, which meant that the stories mainly revolved around their dating misadventures as well as Mark starting his new career as a...
She places an ad in the personals section and then tests Mark by telling him to determine which ad is hers.
Based on a real person and on the movie of the same name, ex-Marine Louanne Johnson is an unconventional teacher who inspires her class of bright but "difficult" inner-city students, and makes a...
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