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Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States, assuming office upon the death of President Zachary Taylor in 1850. Fillmore came from poor, uneducated beginnings to become a New York…

Millard Fillmore Biography

Millard FillmoreBorn: 1/7/1800Birthplace: Cayuga County, N.Y. Millard Fillmore was born at Locke, Cayuga County, N.Y., on Jan. 7, 1800. A lawyer, he entered politics with the Anti-Masonic…

Crittenden, John Jordan

(Encyclopedia) Crittenden, John Jordan, 1787–1863, U.S. public official, b. Woodford co., Ky. A Kentucky legislator (1811–17), Crittenden entered the U.S. Senate (1817–19) but resigned to resume…

Know-Nothing movement

(Encyclopedia) Know-Nothing movement, in U.S. history. The increasing rate of immigration in the 1840s encouraged nativism. In Eastern cities where Roman Catholic immigrants especially had…

Millard FILLMORE, Congress, NY (1800-1874)

FILLMORE Millard , a Representative from New York, Vice President and 13th President of the United States; born in Locke Township (now Summerhill), Cayuga County, N.Y., January 7, 1800; reared on a…

Abigail Powers Fillmore

Abigail Powers married Millard Fillmore in New York in 1826 and went on to become First Lady in 1850, when her husband succeeded Zachary Taylor as president. Abigail was a teacher when she met…