Object Details
- depicted
- Fillmore, Millard
- referenced
- Donelson, Andrew Jackson
- Description
- 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.
- Credit Line
- Ralph E. Becker Collection of Political Americana
- ID Number
- PL.227739.1856.J05
- catalog number
- 227739.1856.J05
- accession number
- 227739
- Object Name
- Ribbon
- Object Type
- ribbon
- Physical Description
- cloth (overall material)
- pink; black (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 in x 2 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 6.35 cm
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
- Exhibition
- American Democracy
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- used
- Political Campaigns
- Record ID
- nmah_502235
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-2463-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
