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| ARTICLES RELATED TO 23rd Congress | | | |  23rd Congress: Encyclopedia II - Millard Fillmore - Biography
Millard Fillmore - Early life.
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. He was first apprenticed to a fuller to learn that trade. He struggled to obtain an education under frontier conditions. Several years later, Fillmore moved to Buffalo, New York to continue his studies. He was admitted to the bar in 1823 and began his practice of law in Aurora. In 1828 he was elected to the New York legislature and served 1829 to 1831.
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| | | | 23rd Congress: Encyclopedia II - Millard Fillmore - Presidency Thus the sudden ascension of Fillmore to the Presidency in July 1850 brought an abrupt political shift in the administration. Taylor's cabinet resigned and President Fillmore at once appointed Daniel Webster to be Secretary of State, thus proclaiming his alliance with the moderate Whigs who favored the Compromise.
A bill to admit California still aroused all the violent arguments for and against the extension of slavery, without ...
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| | | | 23rd Congress: Encyclopedia II - Michigan Territory - History and government
Michigan Territory - Pre-history.
After the arrival of Europeans, the area that became the Michigan Territory was first under French and then British control. Following the American Revolutionary War, several states had competing claims on land in the region. In 1779, Virginia established Illinois County with boundaries that encompassed all of the land east of the Mississippi River, north of the Ohio River and west of the Appalachian Mountains. However, the county government for all practical purposes never exerc ...
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| | | | 23rd Congress: Encyclopedia II - Millard Fillmore - Later Life Upon completing his presidency, Fillmore returned to Buffalo, where he served as chancellor of the University of Buffalo.
As the Whig Party disintegrated in the 1850s, Fillmore refused to join the Republican Party; but, instead, in 1856 accepted the nomination for President of the Know Nothing (or National American Party).
On February 10, 1858, he married a widow Mrs. Caroline Carmichael McIntosh (October 21, 1813- August 11, 1881).
Throughout the Civil War he opposed President Lincoln and during Reconstruction supported President Johnson. He command ...
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| | | | 23rd Congress: Encyclopedia II - Millard Fillmore - Trivia The myth that Millard Fillmore installed the White House's first bathtub was started by H. L. Mencken in a joke column published on December 28, 1917 in the New York Evening Mail. (See: Bathtub hoax) More factual is, having found the White House devoid of books, Millard Fillmore initiated the White House library.
To this day Millard Fillmore remains the last U.S. president who was neither a Democrat ...
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| | | | 23rd Congress: Encyclopedia II - Michigan Territory - Territorial population It's unclear if these census numbers include Native Americans. In 1800, the whole of the Northwest Territory had 43,365 residents. Under the Northwest Ordinance, a territory could apply for statehood once it had surpassed 60,000 inhabitants.
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| | | | 23rd Congress: Encyclopedia II - Millard Fillmore - Presidency Thus the sudden ascension of Fillmore to the Presidency in July 1850 brought an abrupt political shift in the administration. Taylor's cabinet resigned and President Fillmore at once appointed Daniel Webster to be Secretary of State, thus proclaiming his alliance with the moderate Whigs who favored the Compromise.
A bill to admit California still aroused all the violent arguments for and against the extension of slavery, without ...
See also:Millard Fillmore, Millard Fillmore - Biography, Millard Fillmore - Early life, Millard Fillmore - Early political career, Millard Fillmore - The Vice-Presidency, Millard Fillmore - Presidency, Millard Fillmore - Later Life, Millard Fillmore - Cabinet, Millard Fillmore - Supreme Court appointments, Millard Fillmore - States Admitted to the Union Read more here: » Millard Fillmore: Encyclopedia II - Millard Fillmore - Presidency |
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| | | | 23rd Congress: Encyclopedia II - Millard Fillmore - Later Life Upon completing his presidency, Fillmore returned to Buffalo, where he served as chancellor of the University of Buffalo.
As the Whig Party disintegrated in the 1850s, Fillmore refused to join the Republican Party; but, instead, in 1856 accepted the nomination for President of the Know Nothing (or National American Party).
Throughout the Civil War he opposed President Lincoln and during Reconstruction supported President Johnson. He commanded a corps of home guards during the Civil War.
He died at 11:10 p.m. on March 8, 1874 of the after-effects of a stroke, with his last words alleged to be, upon being ...
See also:Millard Fillmore, Millard Fillmore - Biography, Millard Fillmore - Early life, Millard Fillmore - Early political career, Millard Fillmore - The Vice-Presidency, Millard Fillmore - Presidency, Millard Fillmore - Later Life, Millard Fillmore - Cabinet, Millard Fillmore - Supreme Court appointments, Millard Fillmore - States Admitted to the Union Read more here: » Millard Fillmore: Encyclopedia II - Millard Fillmore - Later Life |
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| | | | 23rd Congress: Encyclopedia II - Michigan Territory - Territorial subdivisions Wayne County, Michigan, originally part of the vast Northwest Territory, was eventually whittled down into its current size by the separation of several tracts: Monroe in 1817, Michilimackinac County, Michigan (later called Mackinac and subdivided seven times further) and Macomb Counties in 1818, St. Clair and St. Joseph Counties in 1820 and Washtenaw County in 1822. (Chippewa County was created from Mackinac in 1826, four other Michigan counties were eventually created from that land, and other parts went to Minnesota.) The fir ...
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| | | | 23rd Congress: Encyclopedia II - Millard Fillmore - The Vice-Presidency Having worked his way up through the Whig Party in New York, Fillmore eventually was selected as Zachary Taylor's running mate. (It was thought that the obscure, self-made candidate from New York would complement Taylor, a slave-holding military man from the south.)
Nevertheless, the two men came to a head on the slavery issue in the new western territories taken from Mexico in the Mexican-American War. Taylor wanted the new states to be free states, while Fillmore supported slavery in those states in order to appease the South. In hi ...
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