Millard Fillmore Autographs
Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853. He was the last president to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House, and the last to be neither a Democrat nor a Republican. A former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Fillmore was elected vice president in 1848, and succeeded to the presidency when Zachary Taylor died in 1850. Fillmore was instrumental in passing the Compromise of 1850, which led to a brief truce in the battle over the expansion of slavery.
Fillmore was born into poverty in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York. He had little formal schooling, but studied to become a lawyer. Fillmore became prominent in the Buffalo area as an attorney and politician, and was elected to the New York Assembly in 1828 and the House of Representatives in 1832. Fillmore initially belonged to the Anti-Masonic Party, but became a member of the Whig Party as it formed in the mid-1830s. He was a rival for the state party leadership with Thurlow Weed and his protégé William H. Seward. Throughout his career, Fillmore declared slavery evil but said it was beyond the federal government's power to end it. Conversely, Seward argued that the federal government had a role to play. Fillmore was an unsuccessful candidate for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives when the Whigs took control of the chamber in 1841, but was made chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Defeated in bids for the Whig nomination for vice president and for New York governor in 1844, Fillmore was elected Comptroller of New York in 1847, the first to hold that post by election.
As vice president, Fillmore was largely ignored by Taylor; even in dispensing patronage in New York, Taylor consulted Weed and Seward. In his capacity as president of the Senate, Fillmore presided over its angry debates as the 31st Congress decided whether to allow slavery in the Mexican Cession. Unlike Taylor, Fillmore supported Henry Clay's omnibus bill, the basis of the 1850 Compromise. Upon becoming president in July 1850, he dismissed Taylor's cabinet and pushed Congress to pass the compromise. The Fugitive Slave Act, expediting the return of escaped slaves to those who claimed ownership, was a controversial part of the compromise. Fillmore felt duty-bound to enforce it, though it damaged his popularity and also the Whig Party, which was torn between its Northern and Southern factions. In foreign policy, he supported U.S. Navy expeditions to open trade in Japan, opposed French designs on Hawaii, and was embarrassed by Narciso López's filibuster expeditions to Cuba. Fillmore failed to win the Whig nomination for president in 1852.
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Current items with a signature of Millard Fillmore
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Traded items with a signature of Millard Fillmore
The most expensive item with a signature of Millard Fillmore (2011 Topps Allen & Ginter Millard Fillmore Cut Signature 1/1 Auto PSA 8 Prez) was sold in May 2023 for $6,750.00 while the cheapest item (Signature Ser.: Millard Fillmore : Biography of a President by Robert J. Rayback) found a new owner for $0.99 in July 2022. The month with the most items sold (14) was April 2026 with an average selling price of $797.49 for an autographed item of Millard Fillmore. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in May 2023 with $6,750.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was March 2019. In average, an autographed item from Millard Fillmore is worth $395.00.
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Latest News about Millard Fillmore
NAACP: Stop naming things after Millard Fillmore (02/12/2015): The 13th president, a Buffalo native, signed the Fugitive Slave Act NAACP opposes naming Buffalo buildings after Millard Fillmore, who signed Fugiti (02/12/2015): BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo's celebration of former President Millard Fillmore as a hometown hero is evident throughout the city and suburbs — in the street, college and hospital that bear his name, in the statue that rises outside City Hall and in the landmark status of the house he built. Buffalo NAACP: Stop naming things after Millard Fillmore (02/12/2015): BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo's celebration of former President Millard Fillmore as a hometown hero is evident throughout the city and suburbs — in the street, college and hospital that bear his name, in the statue that rises outside City Hall and in the landmark status of the house he built. NAACP: Stop honoring Millard Fillmore with building names (02/11/2015): BUFFALO | The NAACP is asking elected officials in western New York to reject any future requests to name anything after President Millard Fillmore, who lived in Buffalo and is buried there. NAACP: No more honoring Millard Fillmore with building names (02/11/2015): The NAACP is asking elected officials in western New York to reject any future requests to name anything after President Millard Fillmore, who lived in Buffalo and is buried there.
Older News Stories about Millard Fillmore
NAACP: Stop naming things after Millard Fillmore (02/2015): The 13th president, a Buffalo native, signed the Fugitive Slave Act New chief medical officer at Millard Fillmore Suburban undergoes ‘baptism by fir (01/2015): Dr. David L. Pierce became chief medical officer at Millard Fillmore Suburban and DeGraff Memorial hospitals during the holidays – and a nationwide flu epidemic. Movie-making at former Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital (11/2014): Already a Buffalo News subscriber? Thank you for subscribing! Millard Fillmore: A President who faced a terrible personal conflict (10/2014): As Constitution Daily concludes its Forgotten Presidents week, we look at the controversial figure of Millard Fillmore, whose decision to support pro-slavery legislation came with a great personal conflict. Millard Fillmore Suburban begins construction of new neonatal ICU (08/2014): Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital in Amherst has begun construction on a $13.6 million expansion that features a new neonatal intensive care unit for the treatment of seriously ill or premature newborns. Millard Fillmore Suburban to begin construction of neonatal unit (07/2014): Kaleida Health will begin construction later this summer on a $13.6 million expansion of Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital in Amherst that features a new neonatal intensive care unit for the treatment of seriously ill or premature newborns. UB Institute to work with developers of former Millard Fillmore Gates Circle pro (03/2014): The University at Buffalo’s Regional Institute will work with the new developers for the former Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital site in North Buffalo, to help guide the project through the early stages and engage the community in discussions, the developer announced. Millard Fillmore and Company (02/2014): A Thursday puzzle out of the woodwork from Zhouqin Burnikel and Don Gagliardo. Mo Rocca Visits Millard Fillmore House (01/2014): The National Historic Landmark home of President Millard Fillmore will be featured on the “CBS Sunday Morning” program next month. According to Town Historian Robert Lowell Goller, the show’s popular Plans for Former Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital Announced (11/2013): BUFFALO, NY-- Kaleida Health announced a new developer for the former Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital property Monday. Canterbury Woods is expected to build a downtown campus. Thirty five million dollars will be invested to develop a mixed-use residential, and health and wellness facility.
