Millard Filmore failed to win the Whig nomination for president in 1852 but gained the endorsement of the nativist Know Nothing Party four years later and finished third in the 1856 presidential election.
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35 Facts About Millard Filmore
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Millard Filmore became prominent in the Buffalo area as an attorney and politician, and he was elected to the New York Assembly in 1828 and to the House of Representatives in 1832.
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Millard Filmore was a rival for the state party leadership with the editor Thurlow Weed and Weed's protege, William H Seward.
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Millard Filmore Fillmore was born on January 7,1800, in a log cabin, on a farm in what is Moravia, Cayuga County, in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
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Millard Filmore's parents were Phoebe Millard and Nathaniel Fillmore, and he was the second of eight children and the oldest son.
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Nathaniel Fillmore and Phoebe Millard Filmore moved from Vermont in 1799 and sought better opportunities than were available on Nathaniel's stony farm, but the title to their Cayuga County land proved defective, and the Fillmore family moved to nearby Sempronius, where they leased land as tenant farmers, and Nathaniel occasionally taught school.
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Millard Filmore left Wood after eighteen months; the judge had paid him almost nothing, and both quarreled after Fillmore had, unaided, earned a small sum by advising a farmer in a minor lawsuit.
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Nathaniel again moved the family, and Millard Filmore accompanied it west to East Aurora, in Erie County, near Buffalo, where Nathaniel purchased a farm that became prosperous.
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Millard Filmore taught school in East Aurora and accepted a few cases in justice of the peace courts, which did not require the practitioner to be a licensed attorney.
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Millard Filmore moved to Buffalo the following year and continued his study of law, first while he taught school and then in the law office of Asa Rice and Joseph Clary.
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Millard Filmore became interested in politics, and the rise of the Anti-Masonic Party in the late 1820s provided his entry.
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Millard Filmore proved effective anyway by promoting legislation to provide court witnesses the option of taking a non-religious oath and, in 1830, abolishing imprisonment for debt.
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Millard Filmore took his lifelong friend Nathan K Hall as a law clerk in East Aurora.
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Millard Filmore initially supported General Winfield Scott but really wanted to defeat Kentucky Senator Henry Clay, a slaveholder who he felt could not carry New York State.
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Millard Filmore continued to be active in the lame duck session of Congress that followed the 1842 elections and returned to Buffalo in April 1843.
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Millard Filmore remained a major political figure and led the committee of notables that welcomed John Quincy Adams to Buffalo.
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Millard Filmore was not friendly to immigrants and blamed his defeat on "foreign Catholics".
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Millard Filmore had opposed the annexation of Texas, spoke against the subsequent Mexican–American War, and saw the war as a contrivance to extend slavery's realm.
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Millard Filmore actually came within one vote of it while he maneuvered to get the nomination for his supporter, John Young, who was elected.
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Millard Filmore persuaded Fillmore to support an uncommitted ticket but did not tell the Buffalonian of his hopes for Seward.
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Millard Filmore eloquently described the grief of the Clay supporters, frustrated again in their battle to make Clay president.
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Millard Filmore enjoyed one aspect of his office because of his lifelong love of learning: he became deeply involved in the administration of the Smithsonian Institution as a member ex officio of its Board of Regents.
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Millard Filmore reinforced federal troops in the area and warned Bell to keep the peace.
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Millard Filmore did so even though some prosecutions or attempts to return slaves ended badly for the government, with acquittals and the slave taken from federal custody and freed by a Boston mob.
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Millard Filmore found that many of his supporters could not accept Webster and that his action would nominate Scott.
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Millard Filmore was bereaved again on July 26,1854, when his only daughter, Mary, died of cholera.
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Millard Filmore spent over a year, from March 1855 to June 1856, in Europe and the Middle East.
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Millard Filmore carefully weighed the political pros and cons of meeting with Pius.
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Millard Filmore nearly withdrew from the meeting when he was told that he would have to kneel and kiss the Pope's hand.
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Millard Filmore again felt inhibited from returning to the practice of law.
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Millard Filmore decried Buchanan's inaction as states left the Union and wrote that although the federal government could not coerce a state, those advocating secession should simply be regarded as traitors.
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Millard Filmore aided Buffalo in becoming the third American city to have a permanent art gallery, with the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy.
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Millard Filmore suffered a stroke in February 1874, and died on March 8,1874, at the age of 74 after suffering a second stroke.
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