Presidential Spotlight: Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore’s messages to Congress
- Message to the Senate announcing the death of President Zachary Taylor July 9, 1850
- First Annual Message to Congress
- Second Annual Message to Congress
- Third Annual Message to Congress
Documents
- The agitation of slavery. Who commenced! And who can end it!! Buchanan and Fillmore compared from the record. 1856 pamphlet
- “Read! Read!!” Being a reply to “a statement proving Millard Fillmore, the candidate of the Whig party for the office of Vice President, to be an abolitionist
- Fugitive slave bill … Approved, September 18, 1850. Millard Fillmore
- Things to be remembered. Remember that the Whig administration of Millard Fillmore enacted the Fugitive Slave bill, in violation of the constitution and all the legal safeguards of personal liberty
Millard Fillmore correspondence
Millard Fillmore books & other texts
Millard Fillmore historic newspaper coverage through 1853
President Fillmore historic newspaper coverage 1850-1853
“Millard Fillmore” The American Whig Review Volume 8, Issue 4, October 1848
“Portrait of Millard Fillmore” The American Whig Review Volume 8, Issue 4, October 1848
Maps from Millard Fillmore’s collection (webcast)
Millard Fillmore House National Park Service
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