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18 de jun. de 2024 · Millard Fillmore Biography. Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853. He assumed the presidency upon the death of President Zachary Taylor and was the last president of the Whig Party. Fillmore was known for his efforts to compromise on the issue of slavery, including supporting the passage of the ...
26 de jan. de 2017 · Robert J. Rayback in this fascinating biography re-evaluates the career and presidency of Millard Fillmore. Rather than viewing him as a leader who only had two and a half years in office to implement his policies, he places Fillmore within the tumultuous political context of the 1840s and 1850s.
- Robert J. Rayback
7 de mar. de 2014 · Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. 1. Fillmore rose up out of extreme poverty. Born in a log cabin, Millard Fillmore spent much of his youth clearing land and raising crops on the 130-acre farm that ...
The biography for President Fillmore and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association. Millard Fillmore, a member of the Whig party, was the 13th President of the United ...
Overview. Born into desperate poverty at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Millard Fillmore climbed to the highest office in the land—and inherited a nation breaking into fragments over the question of slavery. Despite his best efforts, the lines of the future battles of the Civil War were drawn, and Fillmore found himself rejected by his ...
1 de fev. de 2014 · On balance it is a steady and useful examination an obscure former president, though clearly too supportive of Fillmore’s service as president. (Full review here) – * Paul Finkelman’s 2011 biography “Millard Fillmore” is a brief but spirited rebuttal to Rayback’s work. Finkelman finds Fillmore far less deserving of praise than Rayback.
Immediately after beginning Robert Rayback's biography of Millard Fillmore, the reader will note that, while billed as a biography, it is not quite that. In his Preface, Rayback writes that his original intention was not to do a biography of Fillmore, but rather to explain the creation, short life, and fairly quick demise of the Whig Party in the mid-1800s.
