In his rise from a log cabin to wealth and the White House, Millard Fillmore demonstrated that through methodical industry and some competence is a boring man could make the American dream.
Born in the Finger Lakes country of New York in 1800, Fillmore as a youth endured the privations of frontier life. He worked on his father's farm, and was at 15 on a cloth dresser in teaching. He attended a school room, and fell in love with the redheaded teacher, Abigail Powers, who later became his wife.
In 1823 he was admitted as an attorney, seven years later he was moved his law practice to Buffalo. As a member of the Whig politician Thurlow Weed, Fillmore held state office and eight years he was a member of the House of Representatives. In 1848, while the controller of New York, he was elected vice president.
Fillmore chairman of the Senate during the months of nerve-wracking debates over the Compromise of 1850. He made no public comment on the merits of the compromise proposals, but a few days before the death of President Taylor, he pointed at him if it would be a tie vote on the bill of Henry Clay, he for a vote.
Thus the sudden accession of Fillmore, the presidency in July 1850 came to an abrupt political change in administration. Taylor Cabinet resigned and President Fillmore at once appointed Daniel Webster, State Minister, announced his alliance with the moderate Whigs, favoring the compromise.
A bill to admit California still aroused all the violent arguments for and against the spread of slavery, without any progress toward settling the major issues.
Clay, exhausted, Washington in order to recover, to take leadership of Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. At this critical juncture, President Fillmore announced in favor of the compromise. On 6 August 1850 he sent a message to Congress recommended that Texas, his claims are paid, leaving a part of New Mexico.
This helped influence a critical number of northern Whigs in Congress by their insistence upon the Wilmot reservation - that all land acquired by the Mexican War, the slavery must be closed.
Douglas Fillmore effective strategy in Congress with the pressure from the White House a push to combine the compensation movement. Breaking single instrument sound package, Douglas five separate bills to the Senate:
1st Admit California as a free state.
2nd Settle the Texas boundary and compensate her.
3rd Granted territorial status to New Mexico.
4th Place Federal officers available to seek refugee slaveholders.
5th Abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.
Each measure receives a majority, and until 20 September President Fillmore had signed them into law. Webster wrote: "I can sleep."
Some of the militant northern Whigs remained irreconcilable, refusing to forgive Fillmore for signing the Fugitive Slave Act. They did not want help, his nomination as presidential candidate in 1852.
Within a few years it was clear that although the compensation should settle the slavery controversy, but rather served as an uneasy sectional truce.
As the Whig Party disintegrated in the 1850s, Fillmore refused to join the Republican Party, but in 1856 accepted the nomination for the office of the Know Nothing or American Party. During the Civil War, he supported himself against President Lincoln and President Johnson during Reconstruction. He died in 1874.
Born in the Finger Lakes country of New York in 1800, Fillmore as a youth endured the privations of frontier life. He worked on his father's farm, and was at 15 on a cloth dresser in teaching. He attended a school room, and fell in love with the redheaded teacher, Abigail Powers, who later became his wife.
In 1823 he was admitted as an attorney, seven years later he was moved his law practice to Buffalo. As a member of the Whig politician Thurlow Weed, Fillmore held state office and eight years he was a member of the House of Representatives. In 1848, while the controller of New York, he was elected vice president.
Fillmore chairman of the Senate during the months of nerve-wracking debates over the Compromise of 1850. He made no public comment on the merits of the compromise proposals, but a few days before the death of President Taylor, he pointed at him if it would be a tie vote on the bill of Henry Clay, he for a vote.
Thus the sudden accession of Fillmore, the presidency in July 1850 came to an abrupt political change in administration. Taylor Cabinet resigned and President Fillmore at once appointed Daniel Webster, State Minister, announced his alliance with the moderate Whigs, favoring the compromise.
A bill to admit California still aroused all the violent arguments for and against the spread of slavery, without any progress toward settling the major issues.
Clay, exhausted, Washington in order to recover, to take leadership of Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. At this critical juncture, President Fillmore announced in favor of the compromise. On 6 August 1850 he sent a message to Congress recommended that Texas, his claims are paid, leaving a part of New Mexico.
This helped influence a critical number of northern Whigs in Congress by their insistence upon the Wilmot reservation - that all land acquired by the Mexican War, the slavery must be closed.
Douglas Fillmore effective strategy in Congress with the pressure from the White House a push to combine the compensation movement. Breaking single instrument sound package, Douglas five separate bills to the Senate:
1st Admit California as a free state.
2nd Settle the Texas boundary and compensate her.
3rd Granted territorial status to New Mexico.
4th Place Federal officers available to seek refugee slaveholders.
5th Abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.
Each measure receives a majority, and until 20 September President Fillmore had signed them into law. Webster wrote: "I can sleep."
Some of the militant northern Whigs remained irreconcilable, refusing to forgive Fillmore for signing the Fugitive Slave Act. They did not want help, his nomination as presidential candidate in 1852.
Within a few years it was clear that although the compensation should settle the slavery controversy, but rather served as an uneasy sectional truce.
As the Whig Party disintegrated in the 1850s, Fillmore refused to join the Republican Party, but in 1856 accepted the nomination for the office of the Know Nothing or American Party. During the Civil War, he supported himself against President Lincoln and President Johnson during Reconstruction. He died in 1874.
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