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4 Feb 2024, 4:12 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
KTVU’s Amanda Quintana, Tom Vacar, James Torrez and wire services contributed to this report. [read post]
9 Jul 2021, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Fillmore was born on January 7, 1800 and was one of the few presidents who could authentically lay claim to birth in a log cabin, as historian Jean Harvey Baker writes in To The Best of My Ability, a book on American presidents edited by James M. [read post]
1 Jul 2021, 12:57 pm by John Elwood
ShareThe Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 2:01 am by Steve Lubet
” He lost to James Buchanan, another doughface Democrat, but set the stage for Abraham Lincoln’s victory in 1860. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
”  Thus, in his “House Divided” Speech of 1858, while suggesting there was in effect a conspiracy among James Buchanan, Roger Taney, Franklin Pierce, and Stephen A. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 11:26 am by Sandy Levinson
“To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. [read post]
30 Dec 2019, 6:00 am by Matthew Waxman
About a decade later, he became secretary of state a second time, for President Millard Fillmore. [read post]
24 Aug 2019, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Fillmore picked up the remaining 16 percent, with the majority of those votes coming at the expense of Republicans. [read post]
21 Aug 2019, 5:00 am by Matthew Waxman
In the Mexican-American War, Webster railed against President James Polk for waging unconstitutional war, alleging that Polk manufactured a military crisis and obtained Congress’s war declaration deceitfully. [read post]
31 May 2019, 9:40 am
” Characterized in comparative terms, “Trump is a Frankenstein’s monster of past presidents’ worst attributes: Andrew Jackson’s rage; Millard Fillmore’s bigotry; James Buchanan’s incompetence and spite; Theodore Roosevelt’s self-aggrandizement; Richard Nixon’s paranoia, insecurity, and indifference to law; and Bill Clinton’s lack of self-control and reflexive dishonesty. [read post]
18 Feb 2019, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
” The 1856 national election had three prominent candidates: James Buchanan, a pro-slavery Democrat; John Fremont, the first presidential nominee of the newly established Republican Party, which aspired to stop the spread of slavery; and Millard Fillmore of the American Party. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 8:12 am by Eric Turkewitz
Before that was Millard Fillmore who left office in 1853, who also served a partial term as he took office upon the death of Zachary Taylor. [read post]
4 Jun 2018, 6:30 am by Silver Law Group
  Richard Grant Cody   IFS Securities   Concorde Investment Services, LLC   Barry Franklin Connell   Morgan Stanley   James Fillmore Crawford Jr. [read post]
18 Feb 2018, 8:24 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Arthur or Millard Fillmore) would be complete without our 17th president, Andrew Johnson. [read post]
7 Jan 2018, 2:30 am by NCC Staff
James Buchanan took the critical election before the 1860s began. [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 2:53 am by Scott Bomboy
Fillmore had greatly upset members of the Democrats and the Whigs with the Compromise. [read post]