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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 the nation's highest office.
Fillmore was never elected President in his own right; after serving out Taylor's term he was not nominated for the Presidency by the Whigs in the 1852 Presidential election, and in 1856 he failed to win election as President as the Know Nothing Party candidate.
Fillmore was born in poverty to Nathaniel Fillmore and Phoebe Millard Fillmore in Summerhill, New York as the second of eight children and the eldest son.
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Fillmore, with great labor, prepared a digest of the laws authorizing all appropriations reported by him to the house as chairman of the committee on ways and means, so that on the instant he could produce the legal authority for every expenditure, which he recommended.
Fillmore retired from congress in 1843, and was a candidate for the office of vice president, supported by his own and several of the western states, in the Whig convention that met at Baltimore in May 1844.
Fillmore's public record that he was a candidate for nomination as president at the Whig convention of 1852: but although his policy, the fugitive slave law included, was approved by a vote of 227 against 60, he could not command 20 votes from the free states.
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 Millard Fillmore - Simple English Wikipedia
Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States of America.
When he was vice president, Millard Fillmore was in charge of the United States Senate while it was fighting over a decision about slavery involving Texas and New Mexico.
Fillmore joined the Know Nothing Party and tried to run for president again, but the Know Nothing Party was not very successful.
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 Millard Fillmore's Obituary
Fillmore was nominated by the Whig National Convention as Vice-President on the ticket with Gen. Taylor, and was elected to that position in the following November.
Fillmore acceded to the Presidential chair, and was inaugurated on the 10th of July, 1850.
Fillmore's retirement from the office of President of the United States the death of his wife occurred, and was shortly followed by that of his only daughter, leaving him an only son, now a lawyer at Buffalo.
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 Welcome to The American Presidency
Millard Fillmore was born in a frontier cabin in Cayuga county, N.Y., on Jan. 7, 1800.
Fillmore was distrustful of the new Republican party and its leaders and had little hope of abating the crisis that came with the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
Caroline Fillmore embellished this with numerous portraits and busts of her husband, and, as long as her health permitted, it was a center of hospitality.
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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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 SPECTRUM Biographies - Millard Fillmore
Fillmore was a member of the state assembly from 1829 to 1832, a member of Congress from 1833 to 1835, and again from 1837 to 1843.
Fillmore opposed the entry of Texas into the Union as a slave state, and he also voted for a protective trade tariff.
Millard Fillmore was elected vice president in 1848, and he succeeded to the presidency when President Zachary Taylor died while in office.
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Fillmore was chiefly responsible, was the tariff of 1842.
Fillmore was a delegate to the Whig state convention, and he was again a delegate in 1838, when William H. Seward was nominated for governor.
Fillmore's temper was conciliatory and his guide was the written law of the constitution, rather than the higher law of the anti-slavery men.
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 Welcome to The American Presidency
Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States (1850–53), succeeding to that office on the death of Zachary Taylor.
Fillmore was born in Cayuga County, N.Y., on Jan. 7, 1800.
Fillmore, although against slavery, opposed the abolitionists as disruptive of the Whig party and of the nation itself.
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 obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Millard Fillmore
The Fillmore family was extremely poor, and Millard Fillmore labored as a child on the family farmstead until he was indentured to a wool carder at the age of 15.
Fillmore served as a New York Assemblyman for three terms (1829-32) and was next elected to Congress, where he served from 1833-35 and 1837-43.
Millard Fillmore suffered a deep loss as he left the White House, his wife of 27 years, Abigail Powers Fillmore suffering pneumonia after exposure to violent weather at the inaugural ceremony for Franklin Pierce.
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Fillmore was born in extreme poverty to Nathaniel Fillmore and Phoebe Millard in Summerhill, EHandler: no quick summary.
The compromise of 1850, in the history of the united states, was a series of measures whose object was the settlement of five questions in dispute between the pro-slavery...
Millard fillmore (january 7, 1800 march 8, 1874) was the thirteenth (18501853) president of the united states and the second...
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 American President
Fillmore, the second of eight children, was born into an impoverished family on January 7, 1800.
In 1832, Millard Fillmore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Millard Fillmore died of a stroke in March of 1874.
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 Millard Fillmore
Millard was the first son of Nathaniel and Phoebe Fillmore.
Millard was apprenticed to a lawyer and thus began his law and public career.
Fillmore appointed Daniel Webster as his Secretary of State, and the two of them tried to make the Whigs a national party that, by occupying a middle ground on the issue of slavery, could conciliate the North and the South and prevent extremists from gaining power.
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Millard Fillmore was one of two presidents to have double letters in his first and last names.
Fillmore refused an honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law from Oxford.
Fillmore was the last president born in the 18th century.
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 Internet Public Library: POTUS
Millard Fillmore -- from The Presidents of the United States of America
After Fillmore's term, he became the chancellor of the University of Buffalo.
Fillmore was the first president to have a stepmother.
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 13th President, Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was born January 7, 1800, near Locke Township, Cayuga Country, New York, in a log cabin.
Fillmore's bid for the Whig Party nomination in 1852 fell to General Winfield Scott, but the Whigs were disorganized, and Scott's opponent Franklin Piece won the election.
In 1856, Fillmore ran for President as the candidate of the Know Nothing Party, but the only state he carried was Maryland.
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 Millard Fillmore
From 1829 to 1832 Fillmore served in the state assembly, and, in the single term of 1833-35, in the national House of Representatives, coming in as anti-Jackson, or in opposition to the administration.
Unlike Taylor, Fillmore favored the "Compromise Measures", and his signing one of them, the Fugitive Slave Law, in spite of the vigorous protests of anti-slavery men, lost him much of his popularity in the North.
Fillmore was twice married: in 1826 to Abigail Powers (who died in 1853, leaving him with a son and daughter), and in 1858 to Mrs.
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 President Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was born on January 7, 1800 in Cayaga County, New York.
Fillmore married his teacher, Abigail Powers, who was 2 years older than her husband.
Millard Fillmore was the first President to have a stepmother.
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 Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was born in a log cabin in Locke, New York.
In 1832, Fillmore was elected to the House of Representatives.
Fillmore was a supporter of the American System and in a later Congressional term played a major role in the passage of the Tariff of 1842.
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Among the compromise's salves to the South was the new Fugitive Slave Law, which facilitated the capture of runaway slaves, and Fillmore's determination to enforce it soon became a source of national friction.
Fillmore, in short, had helped to preserve peace, but he had also fed the pool of sectional bitterness that made a future rupture over slavery all but certain.
Fillmore's portrait by an unidentified artist dates from about the time he retired from the House of Representatives in the early 1840s.
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 Millard Fillmore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This youth, Millard Fillmore, who was born Jan. 7, 1800, would one day become the 13th President of the United States and one of Buffalo's finest civic leaders.
Fillmore endorsed a series of controversial congressional measures called the Compromise of 1850 and the breakup of the Union was averted for a decade.
Fillmore did not hesitate to assist the General Hospital Assn. as a contributor and worker in a fundraising campaign which led to the opening of its new facility in 1858.
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Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 - March 8, 1874) was the 13th (1850-1853) President of the United States.
Because of this, his party's presidential nomination in 1852 went to General Winfield Scott instead of Fillmore.
Fillmore's last words, upon being fed some soup on his deathbed, were "The nourishment is palatable."
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 Fillmore, Millard on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
FILLMORE, MILLARD [Fillmore, Millard] 1800-1874, 13th President of the United States (July, 1850-Mar., 1853), b.
Thurlow Weed made Fillmore a lieutenant in the Anti-Masonic party, and with Weed's support he served in the New York state assembly (1829-31) and in the U.S. House of Representatives (1833-35).
Millard Fillmore--seriously.(Flashback: to know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain ever a child--Cicero)
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 AllRefer.com - Millard Fillmore (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Millard Fillmore 1800–1874, 13th President of the United States (July, 1850–Mar., 1853), b.
Thurlow Weed made Fillmore a lieutenant in the Anti-Masonic party, and with Weed's support he served in the New York state assembly (1829–31) and in the U.S. House of Representatives (1833–35).
He joined the Know-Nothing movement in the vain hope that it might unite North and South, and he accepted (1856) the nomination of that group for the presidency, being endorsed also by the small remnant of the Whigs.
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 FILLMORE, Millard (1800-1874) Guide to Research Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A letter from Millard Fillmore, authorizing the seal of the United States to be affixed to a full power authorizing Captain M.C. Perry to sign a treaty with the Emperor of Japan.
Millard Fillmore declines an invitation to participate in a mass rally in Michigan but urges the Michigan Whigs to support Henry Clay, as the New York Whigs have done.
The letter is in response to a request for Millard Fillmore’s autograph, remarking about the posthumous honors bestowed on Horace Greely, which contrast with the critical abuse he endured while alive.
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