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Nick Thony

Millard Powers Fillmore: A Short Sketch

October 10, 2016 by Nick Thony 1 Comment

Millard Fillmore portraitMillard Powers Fillmore, or “Powers” as he was commonly known, was a Harvard educated man. An avid outdoorsman trained in the law, Powers held a position in the White House by the age of twenty-two, serving as his father Millard Fillmore’s personal secretary.

He was short and stout, but handsome like his father, and had gained a reputation as a “good lawyer and sound thinker,” at a young age. His circumstances probably provided him plenty of opportunities to fraternize with women and other social elites of the time. [Read more…] about Millard Powers Fillmore: A Short Sketch

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Buffalo, Compromise of 1850, Erie County, Millard Fillmore, Political History

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