Millard FillmoreFrom the time he left office in 1853, President Millard Fillmore has become increasingly shrouded in mystery and stereotyped by anecdotes with slender connections to facts. The real Fillmore was not the weak and boring figurehead many Americans believe he was.
This account of Fillmore's life is drawn largely from his family's personal papers, many of which have previously been suppressed or were unavailable or believed lost. It presents Fillmore as his own letters do, and as his friends, family members, and contemporaries saw him, as a distinguished and honorable man who was also a strong and effective president. This comprehensive work includes photographs, a genealogy of the Fillmore family, a chronology, a bibliography, and an index. |
Contents
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CAYUGA ROOTS | 15 |
ON THE ROAD TO POLITICS | 26 |
THE ASSEMBLY YEARS | 36 |
THE YOUNG CONGRESSMAN | 46 |
THE WHITE HOUSE | 187 |
FOREIGN POLICY | 203 |
DIVERSE EVENTS | 217 |
ELECTION OF 1852 | 231 |
SMOOTH TRANSITION | 237 |
TRAGEDY | 244 |
SOUTHERN JOURNEY | 247 |
THE GRAND EXCURSION | 255 |
GAINING ATTENTION | 55 |
THE ELECTION OF 1840 | 64 |
THE FILLMORE TARIFF | 71 |
INTERLUDE | 80 |
STATE COMPTROLLER | 92 |
LOVING PARENTS | 98 |
PARENTAL ADVICE | 115 |
THE ELECTION OF 1848 | 129 |
TAYLORFILLMORE INAUGURATION | 141 |
VICEPRESIDENT | 146 |
BATTLE OVER PATRONAGE | 156 |
FRUSTRATION | 160 |
A STRONG PRESIDENT | 168 |
ANOTHER SHOCK | 263 |
A EUROPEAN VENTURE | 267 |
THE ELECTION OF 1856 | 274 |
CIVIL DISORDER | 303 |
CIVIL WAR | 311 |
DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN | 322 |
INTO OBSCURITY | 331 |
EPILOGUE | 341 |
CHAPTER NOTES | 347 |
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