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See also:FILLMORE, MILLARD (1800-1874) , thirteenth See also:president of the See also:United States of See also:America, came of a See also:family of See also:English stock, which had See also:early settled in New See also:England. His See also:father, Nathaniel, in 1795, made a clearing within the limits of what is now the See also:town of Summerhill, Cayuga See also:county, New See also:York, and there Millard Fillmore was See also:born, on the 7th of See also:January 1800. Until he was fifteen he could have acquired only the simplest rudiments of See also:education, and those chiefly from his parents. At that See also:age he was apprenticed to a See also:fuller and See also:clothier, to card See also:wool, and to dye and See also:dress the See also:cloth. Two years before the See also:close of his See also:term, with a promissory See also:note for See also:thirty dollars, he bought the See also:remainder of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time from his See also:master, and at the age of nineteen began to study See also:law. In 1820 he made his way to See also:Buffalo, then only a See also:village, and supported himself by teaching school and aiding the postmaster while continuing his studies.
In 1823 he was admitted to the See also:bar, and began practice at See also:Aurora, New York, to which See also:place his father had removed. Hard study, See also:temperance and integrity gave him a See also:good reputation and moderate success, and in 1827 he was made an See also:attorney
and, in 1829, counsellor of the supreme See also:court of the See also:state. Returning to Buffalo in 1830 he formed, in 1832, a See also:partnership with Nathan K. See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall (1810-1874), later a member of See also:Congress and postmaster-See also:general in his See also:cabinet. See also:Solomon G. Haven (1810–1861), member of Congress from 1851 to 1857, joined them in 1836. The See also:firm met with See also:great success. From 1829 to 1832 Fillmore served in the state See also:assembly, and, in the single term of 1833-1835, in the See also:national See also:House of Representatives, coming in as See also:anti-See also:Jackson, or in opposition to the See also:administration. From 1837 to 1843, when he declined further service, he again represented his See also:district in the House, this time as a member of the Whig party. In Congress he opposed the See also:annexation of See also:Texas as slave territory, was an See also:advocate of See also:internal improvements and a protective See also:tariff, supported J. Q. See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams in maintaining the right of offering anti-See also:slavery petitions, advocated,the See also:prohibition by Congress of the slave See also:trade between the states, and favoured the exclusion of slavery from the District of See also:Columbia. His speech and See also:tone, however, were moderate on these exciting subjects, and he claimed the right to stand See also:free of pledges, and to adjust his opinions and his course by the development of circumstances. The Whigs having the ascendancy in the Twenty-Seventh Congress, he was made chairman of the House See also:Committee of Ways and Means. Against a strong opposition he carried an See also:appropriation of $30,000 to See also:Morse's See also:telegraph, and reported from his committee the Tariff See also:Bill of 1842. In 1844 he was the Whig See also:candidate for the governorship of New York, but was defeated. ' In See also:November 1847 he was elected See also:comptroller of the state of New York, and in 1848 he was elected See also:vice-president of the United States on the See also:ticket with Zachary See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor as president. Fillmore presided over the See also:senate during the exciting debates on the " See also:Compromise See also:Measures of 1850."
President Taylor died on the 9th of See also:July 185o, and on the next See also:day Fillmore took the See also:oath of See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office as his successor. The cabinet which he called around him contained See also:Daniel See also:Webster, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Corwin and See also:John J. See also:Crittenden. On the See also:death of Webster in 1852, See also:Edward See also:Everett became secretary of state. Unlike Taylor, Fillmore favoured the " Compromise Measures," and his See also: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 See also:North. Few of his opponents, however, questioned his own full persuasion that the Compromise Measures were vitally necessary to pacify the nation. In 1851 he interposed promptly but ineffectively in thwarting the projects of the " filibusters," under Narciso See also:Lopez for the invasion of See also:Cuba. See also:Commodore See also:Matthew Calbraith See also:Perry's expedition, which opened up See also:diplomatic relations with See also:Japan, and the exploration of the valley of the See also:Amazon by Lieutenants See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William L. Herndon (1813–1857) and See also:Lardner See also:Gibbon also occurred during his term. In the autumn of 1852 he was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination for the See also:presidency by the Whig National See also:Convention, and he went out of office on the 4th of See also:March 1853. In See also:February 1856, while he was travelling abroad, he was nominated for the presidency by the See also:American or Know Nothing party, and later this nomination was also accepted by the Whigs; but in the ensuing presidential See also:election, the last in which the Know Nothings and the Whigs as such took any See also:part, he received the electoral votes of only one state, See also:Maryland. Thereafter he took no public See also:share in See also:political affairs. Fillmore was twice married: in 1826 to See also:Abigail See also:Powers (who died in 1853, leaving him with a son and daughter), and in 1858 to Mrs. See also:Caroline C. McIntosh. He died at Buffalo on the 8th of March 1874.
In 1907 the Buffalo See also:Historical Society, of which Fillmore was one of the founders and the first president, published the Millard Fillmore Papers (2 vols., vol. x. and xi. of the Society's publications; edited by F. H. Severance), containing See also:miscellaneous writings and speeches, and See also:official and private See also:correspondence. Most of his correspondence, however, was destroyed in pursuance of a direction in his son's will.
End of Article: FILLMORE, MILLARD (1800-1874)
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