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Millard Fillmore’s Copy of June 1864 Issue of "The African Repository"
Millard Fillmore’s Copy of June 1864 Issue of "The African Repository"
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Millard Fillmore
Washington, DC, ca. June 1864
Millard Fillmore's Copy of June 1864 Issue of "The African Repository"
Pamphlet/Booklet
[MILLARD FILLMORE.] Copy of "The African Repository," vol. XL, no. VI. (June 1864). Washington, DC: American Colonization Society. 32 pp. (161-192), 5.375" x 8.5". With "Hon. Millard Fillmore" subscriber name written on front cover. Paper cover chipped on edges, separated on spine; general toning; very good.

This copy of the American Colonization Society's monthly journal, The African Repository, was sent to Life Director and former President of the United States Millard Fillmore. The issue includes several articles on Liberia and Africa generally, including one on the "Reception of the American Consul General" Abraham Hanson; another on the corresponding reception by Secretary of State William H. Seward of "Charge d' Affaires from Liberia" John B. Pinney; and a detailed November 1863 "Letter from Liberia."

Fillmore became a member of the American Colonization Society in 1850, and he later wrote that he prized "very highly" the membership certificate, which bore the signature of Henry Clay. In 1853, Fillmore became a "Life Director" of the Society when undisclosed donors contributed $1,000 to the cause in his honor. In 1867, Fillmore authored the Society's 50th Annual Report.

The African Repository (1825-1892) was the official journal of the American Colonization Society. It began publication in 1825, and the Society's agent and secretary from 1822 to 1872, Ralph Randolph Gurley, edited the publication for 25 years. In 1892, the name of the magazine was changed to Liberia.

Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) was born in a log cabin in western New York. Largely self-taught, he later read law with several lawyers before being admitted to the bar in 1823. He married Abigail Powers in 1826, and they had two children. He represented New York as a Whig in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1833 to 1835 and again from 1837 to 1843. He returned to his law practice, and in 1846, helped found the University of Buffalo and became its first chancellor. While Fillmore served as state comptroller in 1848, the Whig Party selected him as the vice-presidential running mate for Mexican War hero Zachary Taylor. When the Whigs won the election, Fillmore became vice president in March 1849. As vice president, he presided over the Senate during the contentious debates over the Compromise of 1850, which Fillmore favored. When President Taylor died suddenly on July 9, 1850, Fillmore became the 13th President of the United States. Although the Compromise of 1850, as proposed in a single bill by Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, failed to gain enough support to pass, Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois pushed through the provisions as five separate bills, and President Fillmore signed them as they reached him. His support of the Fugitive Slave Act part of the Compromise made him unpopular with many northern Whigs. In 1852, Fillmore lost the Whig nomination to Mexican War hero Winfield Scott, whom Democrat Franklin Pierce easily defeated in the general election. Fillmore's wife died just weeks after Pierce became president, and Fillmore returned to New York, where a year later, his only daughter died. After spending a year in Europe and the Middle East, Fillmore was the presidential candidate for the American Party in 1856. He garnered more than 21 percent of the popular vote but won only the state of Maryland in the Electoral College. In 1858, he married widow Caroline Carmichael McIntosh (1813-1881). Although he supported Stephen Douglas, the northern Democratic candidate in the election of 1860, like Douglas, Fillmore was a strong supporter of the Union and supported Lincoln's efforts to preserve it.

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  • Dimensions: 5.375" x 8.5"
  • Medium: Pamphlet/Booklet

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