Millard Fillmore Campaign Ribbon, 1856

Fillmore, Millard

Millard Fillmore was vice president under Zachary Taylor, but rose to president after Taylor’s death and served out most of the term as president. He was not nominated by his party – the Whigs – to run in the 1852 election, at the end of his term as president, but he ran as a third party candidate in the 1856 election that followed. Millard Fillmore and his running mate Andrew Jackson Donelson ranas candidates from the new American party, against Democratic James Buchanan and Republican John C Fremont. Fillmore used anti-sectionalism – as the quote on the ribbon speaks to – as well as pro-slavery and anti-immigrant rhetoric. He came in third place in the 1856 election.