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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Carl McCall, Millard Fillmore, Alan Hevesi, Thomas DiNapoli, New York State Comptroller, William L. Marcy, Edward Regan, Otto Kelsey, Nathan Lewis Miller, Martin H. Glynn, Washington Hunt, Silas Wright, Lucius Robinson, Sanford E. Church, Theodore P. Gilman, Alfred C. Chapin, Erastus C. Knight, Archibald McIntyre, Clark Williams, James Wolcott Wadsworth, Elisha Jenkins, Philo C. Fuller, Frederic P. Olcott, John A. Collier, Azariah Cutting Flagg, Morris S. Tremaine, Edward Wemple, Bates Cooke, Robert Denniston, John Savage, Peter T. Curtenius, Lorenzo Burrows, William F. Allen, James M. Cook, William Sohmer, Thomas Hillhouse, Harry D. Yates, Eugene M. Travis, Ira Davenport, James A. Wendell, James W. Fleming, Arthur Levitt, Sr., Thomas Sanzillo, James A. Roberts, Charles H. Gaus, William J. Morgan, Samuel Jones, William J. Maier, Frank Campbell, Joseph V. O'Leary, William C. Wilson, Comfort Sands, Vincent B. Murphy, Frank C. Moore, Nelson K. Hopkins, J. Raymond McGovern, John Vernon Henry, John C. Wright. Excerpt: Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 - March 8, 1874) was the 13th President of the United States (1850-1853) and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president. As Zachary Taylor's Vice President, he assumed the presidency after Taylor's death. Fillmore opposed the proposal to keep slavery out of the territories annexed during the Mexican-American War (to appease the South), and so supported the Compromise of 1850, which he signed, including the Fugitive Slave Act ("Bloodhound Law") which was part of the compromise. On the foreign policy front, he furthered the rising trade with Japan and clashed with the French over Napoleon III's attempt to annex Hawaii, and with the French and the British over the attempt of Narciso Lopez to invade Cuba. After his presidency, he joined the Know-Nothing m...
