Fillmore Sentence Examples

Most of the measures were rejected and the whole plan seemed likely to fail, when the situation was changed by the death of President Taylor and the accession of Millard Fillmore on the 9th of July 1850.

In 1853 he declined President Fillmore's offer to make him secretary of state.

President Taylor died on the 9th of July 1850, and on the next day Fillmore took the oath of office as his successor.

He was a member of the lower house of the Ohio legislature in 1821, 1822 and 1829, and of the national House of Representatives from 1831 to 1840; was governor of Ohio in 1840-1842; served in the United States Senate from 1845 to 1850; was secretary of the treasury in the cabinet of President Fillmore in 1850-1853; was again a member of the national House of Representatives from 1859 to 1861; and from 1861 to 1864 was minister of the United States to Mexico - a position of peculiar difficulty at that time.

His father, Nathaniel, in 1795, made a clearing within the limits of what is now the town of Summerhill, Cayuga county, New York, and there Millard Fillmore was born, on the 7th of February 1800.

From 1829 to 1832 Fillmore served in the state assembly, and, in the single term of 1833-1835, in the national House of Representatives, coming in as anti-Jackson, or in opposition to the administration.

Fillmore presided over the senate during the exciting debates on the " Compromise Measures of 1850."1850."

Unlike Taylor, Fillmore favoured the " Compromise Measures," and his signing one of them, the Fugitive Slave Law, in spite of the vigorous protests of anti-slavery men, lost him much of his popularity in the North.

On the death, in October 1852, of his friend Daniel Webster, to whom he had always been closely attached, and of whom he was always a confidential adviser, he succeeded him as secretary of state, which post he held for the remaining months of Fillmore's administration, leaving it to go into the Senate in 1853, as one of the representatives of Massachusetts.

Adjoining it is the Forest Lawn cemetery, in which are monuments to President Millard Fillmore, and to the famous Seneca chief Red Jacket (1751-1830), a friend of the whites, who was faithful when approached by Tecumseh and the Prophet, and warned the Americans of their danger; by many he has been considered the greatest orator of his race.

In the manifesto the three ministers asserted that " from the peculiarity of its geographical position, and the considerations attendant upon it, Cuba is as necessary to the North American republic as any of its present members "; spoke of the danger to the United States of an insurrection in Cuba; asserted that " we should be recreant to our duty, be unworthy ingly on his return from England in 1856 he was nominated by the Democrats as a compromise candidate for president, and was elected, receiving 174 electoral votes to 114 for John C. Fremont, Republican, and 8 for Millard Fillmore, American or " Know-Nothing."

He was an ardent and outspoken supporter of Clay's compromise measures, and in 1850 he entered President Fillmore's cabinet as attorney-general, serving throughout the administration.

A new retail business district developed in what is known as the mission district and in Fillmore Street.

She plays a rookie British teacher in Fillmore High, which is set to air at 9pm n Tuesdays this autumn.

Bynes graduated from Fillmore High School and had hoped to attend New York University, but her skyrocketing career put plans on hold.

Most recently, Carlin voiced the role of Fillmore in the animated Disney film Cars.

They are even dated - the Cream shirt is an exact replica of the concert shirt sold with the Fillmore Auditorium booking from March 7, 1968-March 10, 1968.

Hit albums such as The Allman Brothers Band, At Fillmore East and Eat a Peach offer guitarists a meaty collection of songs that are heavy on the guitar and heavy on improvisation.

Then there's Fillmore Street in the Pacific Heights area which is upscale but without pretense.

In July 1859 Webster again became secretary of state, in the cabinet of President Fillmore.