Millard Fillmore 1851-1853 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap when Danforth carried the Democratic

when Danforth carried the Democratic banner against Theodore Roosevelt — a race lost by a narrow margin

Old Bullion himself

Washington as a Freemason

The lithographer's grid imposes order on a hundred years of contested elections

dating itself to the year a president was shot in a Washington train station and the long postwar arithmetic of remembrance was still being tallied

Millard Fillmore 1851-1853 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap when Danforth carried the DemocraticMillard Fillmore 18511853 a portrait of the accidental president whose signature on the Fugitive Slave Act bought the Union a few more uneasy years. The likeness carries that peculiar Whig stillness, the composed face of a man presiding over a compromise already cracking beneath him. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,