Bibliography of Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore
Portrait c. 1855–1865
13th President of the United States
In office July 9, 1850 – March 4, 1853
Vice President	Vacant
Preceded by	Zachary Taylor
Succeeded by	Franklin Pierce
12th Vice President of the United States
In office March 4, 1849 – July 9, 1850
President	Zachary Taylor
Preceded by	George M. Dallas
Succeeded by	William R. King
14th Comptroller of New York
In office January 1, 1848 – February 20, 1849
Governor	John Young Hamilton Fish
Preceded by	Azariah C. Flagg
Succeeded by	Washington Hunt
Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee
In office March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843
Preceded by	John Winston Jones
Succeeded by	James I. McKay
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 32nd district
In office March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1843
Preceded by	Thomas C. Love
Succeeded by	William A. Moseley
In office March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Thomas C. Love
Personal details
Born	(1800-01-07)January 7, 1800 Moravia, New York, U.S.
Died	March 8, 1874(1874-03-08) (aged 74) Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Cemetery
Party	Whig (1832–1855)
Other political affiliations	Anti-Masonic (1828–1832) American (1855–1856)
Spouses	Abigail Powers ​ ​ (m. 1826; died 1853)​ Caroline McIntosh ​ (m. 1858)​
Children	Millard Mary
Parents	Nathaniel Fillmore Phoebe Millard
Occupation	Politician lawyer
Signature
Military service
Branch/service	New York Militia New York Guard
Years of service	1820s–1830s (Militia) 1860s–1870s (Guard)
Rank	Major (Militia) Captain (Guard)
Commands	Union Continentals (Guard)
Battles/wars	American Civil War

This is a select bibliography of academic level books and journal articles, published mainly after World War II, about the history of Millard Fillmore and his historical context.

Inclusion criteria

Works included are referenced in the notes or bibliographies of scholarly secondary sources or journals. Included works should either be published by an academic or widely distributed publisher, be authored by a notable subject matter expert as shown by scholarly reviews or have significant scholarly journal reviews about the work. To keep the bibliography length manageable, only items that clearly meet the criteria should be included.

A brief selection of English translations of primary sources is included. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below; see Further reading for several book and chapter-length bibliographies. The External links section contains entries for publicly available select bibliographies from universities.

Citation style

This bibliography uses APA style citations. Entries do not use templates. References to reviews and notes for entries do use citation templates. Where books which are only partially related to Millard Fillmore are listed, the titles for chapters or sections should be indicated if possible, meaningful, and not excessive.

If a work has been translated into English, the translator should be included and a footnote with appropriate bibliographic information for the original language version should be included.

When listing works with titles or names published with alternative English spellings, the form used in the latest published version should be used and the version and relevant bibliographic information noted if it previously was published or reviewed under a different title.

Overview

Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853. He was the last president to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House, and the last to be neither a Democrat nor a Republican. A former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Fillmore was elected vice president in 1848, and succeeded to the presidency when Zachary Taylor died in 1850. Fillmore was instrumental in passing the Compromise of 1850, which led to a brief truce in the battle over the expansion of slavery.

General works

Main articles: Presidency of Millard Fillmore, Presidency of Zachary Taylor, Zachary Taylor, and Millard Fillmore

See also: Bibliography of Zachary Taylor

• Cohen, J. (2019). Chapter 2: Over By Dead Body. In Accidental presidents: Eight men who changed America. Simon & Schuster.
• Finkelman, P. (2011). Millard Fillmore. Times Books.
• Grayson, B. L. (1981). The unknown president: The administration of President Millard Fillmore. University Press of America.
• Rayback, R. J. (1959). Millard Fillmore: Biography of a president. Henry Stewart.
• Scarry, R. J. (2001). Millard Fillmore. McFarland.
• Smith, E. B. (1988). The presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. University Press of Kansas.

Background and context

See also: Mexican American War, California Statehood Act, and Compromise of 1850

The below items contain significant information about Millard Fillmore or significant background and context for his life and presidency.

Political

See also: Whig Party (United States) and Know Nothing Party

• Benson, L. (1961). The concept of Jacksonian democracy: New York as a test case. Princeton University Press.
• Freehling, W. W. (1990). The road to disunion: Vol. 1. Secessionists at bay, 1776–1854. Oxford University Press.
• Hamilton, H. (1954). Democratic Senate leadership and the Compromise of 1850. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 41(3), 403.
• Holt, M. F. (1978). The political crisis of the 1850s. Wiley.
• Holt, M. F. (1999). The rise and fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian politics and the onset of the Civil War. Oxford University Press.
• Holt, M. F. (1992). Political parties and American political development from the age of Jackson to the age of Lincoln. Louisiana State University Press.
• Howe, D. W. (1979). The political culture of the American Whigs. University of Chicago Press.
• Howe, D. W. (2007). What hath God wrought: The transformation of America, 1815–1848. Oxford University Press.
• Kutolowski, K. S. (1984). Antimasonry reexamined: Social bases of the grass-roots party. The Journal of American History, 71(2), 269.
• Levine, B. (2001). Conservatism, nativism, and slavery: Thomas R. Whitney and the origins of the Know-Nothing Party. The Journal of American History, 88(2), 455.
• Potter, D. M. (1976). The impending crisis, 1848–1861 (D. E. Fehrenbacher, Ed.). Harper and Row.
• Rupp, R. O. (1988). Parties and the public good: Political antimasonry in New York reconsidered. Journal of the Early Republic, 8(3), 253.
• Silbey, J. H. (1991). The American political nation, 1838–1893. Stanford University Press.
• Varon, E. R. (2008). Disunion! The coming of the American Civil War, 1789–1859. University of North Carolina Press.
• Vaughn, W. P. (1983). The Antimasonic Party in the United States, 1826–1843. University Press of Kentucky.
• Watson, H. L. (1997). Humbug? Bah! Altschuler and Blumin and the riddle of the antebellum electorate. The Journal of American History, 84(3), 886.
• Wilentz, S. (2005). The rise of American democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. W. W. Norton.

Slavery

• Anbinder, T. (1992). Nativism and slavery: The northern Know Nothings and the politics of the 1850s. Oxford University Press.
• Campbell, S. W. (1970). The slave catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850–1860. University of North Carolina Press.
• Grodzins, D. (2010). "Slave law" versus "lynch law" in Boston: Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Theodore Parker, and the fugitive slave crisis, 1850–1855. Massachusetts Historical Review, 12, 1.
• Middleton, S. (1987). The fugitive slave crisis in Cincinnati, 1850–1860: Resistance, enforcement, and Black refugees. The Journal of Negro History, 72(1–2), 20–32.

The Great Debate and the Compromise of 1850

• Bordewich, F. M. (2012). America's great debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union. Simon & Schuster.
• Campbell, S. W. (1970). The slave catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850–1860. University of North Carolina Press.
• Grodzins, D. (2010). "Slave law" versus "lynch law" in Boston: Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Theodore Parker, and the fugitive slave crisis, 1850–1855. Massachusetts Historical Review, 12, 1.
• Hamilton, H. (1954). Democratic Senate leadership and the Compromise of 1850. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 41(3), 403.
• Hamilton, H. (1957). 'The cave of the winds' and the Compromise of 1850. The Journal of Southern History, 23(3), 331.
• Hamilton, H. (1964). Prologue to conflict: The crisis and compromise of 1850. University of Kentucky Press.
• Hodder, F. H. (1936). The authorship of the Compromise of 1850. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 22(4), 525.
• Maizlish, S. E. (2018). A strife of tongues: The Compromise of 1850 and the ideological foundations of the American Civil War. University of Virginia Press.
• Middleton, S. (1987). The fugitive slave crisis in Cincinnati, 1850–1860: Resistance, enforcement, and Black refugees. The Journal of Negro History, 72(1–2), 20–32.
• Russel, R. R. (1956). What was the Compromise of 1850?. The Journal of Southern History, 22(3), 292.
• Stephenson, N. W. (1935). California and the Compromise of 1850. Pacific Historical Review, 4(2), 114–122.
• Waugh, J. C. (2003). On the brink of Civil War: The Compromise of 1850 and how it changed the course of American history. Scholarly Resources.

Japan and Matthew Perry

See also: Matthew Perry

• Hones, S. (2006). History, distance and text: Narratives of the 1853–1854 Perry expedition to Japan. Journal of Historical Geography, 32(3), 563–578.
• Keith, J. A. (2011). Civilization, race, and the Japan expedition's cultural diplomacy, 1853–1854. Diplomatic History, 35(2), 179–202.
• Wiley, P. B. (with Korogi, I.). (1990). Yankees in the land of the gods: Commodore Perry and the opening of Japan. Viking.

California

• Stanley, G. (1974). Racism and the early Republican Party: The 1856 presidential election in California. Pacific Historical Review, 43(2), 171–187.
• Stephenson, N. W. (1935). California and the Compromise of 1850. Pacific Historical Review, 4(2), 114–122.

Gold Rush

See also: California Gold Rush

• Kanazawa, M. (2015). Golden rules: The origins of California water law in the Gold Rush. University of Chicago Press.
• Lapp, R. M. (1977). Blacks in Gold Rush California. Yale University Press.
• Madley, B. (2016). An American genocide: The United States and the California Indian catastrophe, 1846–1873. Yale University Press.
• McDowell, A. G. (2022). We the miners: Self-government in the California Gold Rush. Harvard University Press.
• McGuinness, A. (2008). Path of empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush. Cornell University Press.
• Monaghan, J. (1973). Chile, Peru, and the California Gold Rush of 1849. University of California Press.
• Mountford, B., & Tuffnell, S. (Eds.). (2018). A global history of gold rushes. University of California Press.
• Roberts, B. (2000). American alchemy: The California Gold Rush and middle-class culture. University of North Carolina Press.
• Rohrbough, M. J. (1997). Days of gold: The California Gold Rush and the American nation. University of California Press.
• Rohrbough, M. J. (2013). Rush to gold: The French and the California Gold Rush, 1848–1854. Yale University Press.
• Smith, S. L. (2013). Freedom's frontier: California and the struggle over unfree labor, emancipation, and Reconstruction. University of North Carolina Press.

Admission of California

For works about the admission of California, see California Statehood Act § Sources., see Bibliography of Millard Fillmore (disambiguation).

Mexican American War

Main article: Bibliography of the Mexican American War

Miscellaneous

• Bell, J. F. (2015). Poetry's place in the crisis and compromise of 1850. The Journal of the Civil War Era, 5(3), 399–421.
• Gienapp, W. E. (1987). The origins of the Republican Party, 1852–1856. Oxford University Press.
• Hinton, W. K. (1980). Millard Fillmore, Utah's friend in the White House. Utah Historical Quarterly, 48(2), 112–128.

Contemporary biographies

• Bartlett, I. H. (1993). John C. Calhoun: A biography. W. W. Norton.
• Bauer, K. J. (1985). Zachary Taylor: Soldier, planter, statesman of the Old Southwest. Louisiana State University Press.
• Baxter, M. G. (1984). One and inseparable: Daniel Webster and the Union. Harvard University Press.
• Belohlavek, J. M. (2005). Broken glass: Caleb Cushing and the shattering of the Union. Kent State University Press.
• Blight, D. W. (2018). Frederick Douglass: Prophet of freedom. Simon & Schuster.
• Blue, F. J. (1987). Salmon P. Chase: A life in politics. Kent State University Press.
• Blue, F. J. (2005). No taint of compromise: Crusaders in antislavery politics. Louisiana State University Press.
• Burlingame, M. (2008). Abraham Lincoln: A life. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Chaffin, T. (2014). Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the course of American empire. University of Oklahoma Press.
• Chambers, W. N. (1956). Old Bullion Benton, senator from the New West: Thomas Hart Benton, 1782–1858. Little, Brown.
• Cole, D. B. (1984). Martin Van Buren and the American political system. Princeton University Press.
• Cooper, W. J. (2000). Jefferson Davis, American. Alfred A. Knopf.
• Davis, W. C. (1991). Jefferson Davis: The man and his hour. HarperCollins.
• Donald, D. (1960). Charles Sumner and the coming of the Civil War. Alfred A. Knopf.
• Donald, D. H. (1995). Lincoln. Simon & Schuster.
• Duberman, M. B. (1961). Charles Francis Adams, 1807–1886. Houghton Mifflin.
• Elder, R. (2021). Calhoun: American heretic. Basic Books.
• Faust, D. G. (1982). James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A design for mastery. Louisiana State University Press.
• Gara, L. (1991). The presidency of Franklin Pierce. University Press of Kansas.
• Guelzo, A. C. (1999). Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer president. William B. Eerdmans.
• Haley, J. L. (2002). Sam Houston. University of Oklahoma Press.
• Hamilton, H. (1951). Zachary Taylor: Soldier in the White House. Bobbs-Merrill.
• Harrold, S. (1986). Gamaliel Bailey and antislavery union. Kent State University Press.
• Heidler, D. S., & Heidler, J. T. (2010). Henry Clay: The essential American. Random House.
• Hunt, H. D. (1969). Hannibal Hamlin of Maine: Lincoln's first vice-president. Syracuse University Press.
• Johannsen, R. W. (1973). Stephen A. Douglas. Oxford University Press.
• Johnson, T. D. (1998). Winfield Scott: The quest for military glory. University Press of Kansas.
• Kirwan, A. D. (1962). John J. Crittenden: The struggle for the Union. University of Kentucky Press.
• Klein, P. S. (1962). President James Buchanan: A biography. Pennsylvania State University Press.
• Klunder, W. C. (1996). Lewis Cass and the politics of moderation. Kent State University Press.
• McFeely, W. S. (1991). Frederick Douglass. W. W. Norton.
• Nichols, R. F. (1931). Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills. University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Niven, J. (1983). Martin Van Buren: The romantic age of American politics. Oxford University Press.
• Niven, J. (1988). John C. Calhoun and the price of Union: A biography. Louisiana State University Press.
• Niven, J. (1995). Salmon P. Chase: A biography. Oxford University Press.
• Parks, J. H. (1950). John Bell of Tennessee. Louisiana State University Press.
• Peterson, M. D. (1987). The great triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun. Oxford University Press.
• Remini, R. V. (1991). Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union. W. W. Norton.
• Remini, R. V. (1997). Daniel Webster: The man and his time. W. W. Norton.
• Schott, T. E. (1988). Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A biography. Louisiana State University Press.
• Sewell, R. H. (1965). John P. Hale and the politics of abolition. Harvard University Press.
• Spencer, I. D. (1959). The victor and the spoils: A life of William L. Marcy. Brown University Press.
• Stahr, W. (2012). Seward: Lincoln's indispensable man. Simon & Schuster.
• Stewart, J. B. (1970). Joshua R. Giddings and the tactics of radical politics. Press of Case Western Reserve University.
• Taylor, A.-M. (2001). Young Charles Sumner and the legacy of the American Enlightenment, 1811–1851. University of Massachusetts Press.
• Thompson, W. Y. (1966). Robert Toombs of Georgia. Louisiana State University Press.
• Trefousse, H. L. (1997). Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-century egalitarian. University of North Carolina Press.
• Van Deusen, G. G. (1947). Thurlow Weed: Wizard of the lobby. Little, Brown.
• Van Deusen, G. G. (1953). Horace Greeley: Nineteenth-century crusader. University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Van Deusen, G. G. (1967). William Henry Seward. Oxford University Press.
• Wallner, P. A. (2004). Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's favorite son. Plaidswede.
• Walther, E. H. (1992). The fire-eaters. Louisiana State University Press.
• Walther, E. H. (2006). William Lowndes Yancey and the coming of the Civil War. University of North Carolina Press.

Historiography

• Anbinder, T. (2006). Nativism and prejudice against immigrants. In R. Ueda (Ed.), A companion to American immigration (pp. 177–201). Blackwell Publishing.
• Eyal, Y. (2010). The "party period" framework and the election of 1848. Reviews in American History, 38(1), 80–86.
• Formisano, R. P. (1976). Toward a reorientation of Jacksonian politics: A review of the literature, 1959–1975. The Journal of American History, 63(1), 42.
• Formisano, R. P. (1999). The "party period" revisited. The Journal of American History, 86(1), 93.
• Pressly, T. J. (1954). Americans interpret their Civil War. Princeton University Press.
• Silbey, J. H. (1964). The Civil War synthesis in American political history. Civil War History, 10(2), 130–140.

Primary sources

• Dix, D. L., & Fillmore, M. (1975). The lady and the president: The letters of Dorothea Dix and Millard Fillmore (C. M. Snyder, Ed.). University Press of Kentucky.
• Fillmore, M. (1907). Millard Fillmore papers (F. H. Severance, Ed.; Vols. 1–2). Buffalo Historical Society.
• Fillmore, M. (n.d.). Millard Fillmore papers [Digital collection]. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

Other

• Barre, W. L. (1856). The life and public services of Millard Fillmore. Wanzer, McKim.
• Benton, T. H. (1854–1856). Thirty years' view; or, A history of the working of the American government for thirty years, from 1820 to 1850 (2 vols.). D. Appleton.
• Bigelow, J. (1856). Memoir of the life and public services of John Charles Frémont. Derby & Jackson.
• Bigelow, J. (1909). Retrospections of an active life. Baker & Taylor.
• Chamberlain, I. (1856). Biography of Millard Fillmore. Thomas & Lathrops.
• Chase, S. P. (1994). The Salmon P. Chase papers: Vol. 2. Correspondence, 1823–1857 (J. Niven, Ed.). Kent State University Press.
• Clay, H. (1855). The private correspondence of Henry Clay (C. Colton, Ed.). A. S. Barnes.
• Clay, H. (1857). The life, correspondence, and speeches of Henry Clay (C. Colton, Ed.; 6 vols.). A. S. Barnes.
• Coleman, A. M. B. C. (Ed.). (1871). The life of John J. Crittenden, with selections from his correspondence and speeches (2 vols.). J. B. Lippincott.
• Colton, C. (1856). The last seven years of the life of Henry Clay. A. S. Barnes.
• Curtis, G. T. (1870). Life of Daniel Webster. D. Appleton.
• Curtis, G. T. (1878). The last years of Daniel Webster: A monograph. D. Appleton.
• Hawks, F. L. (1856). Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore M. C. Perry (3 vols.). Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer.
• Hone, P. (1889). The diary of Philip Hone, 1828–1851 (B. Tuckerman, Ed.). Dodd, Mead.
• Hone, P. (1927). The diary of Philip Hone, 1828–1851 (A. Nevins, Ed.). Dodd, Mead.
• Julian, G. W. (1850). Speech of Hon. George W. Julian, of Indiana, on the slavery question, delivered in the House of Representatives, May 14, 1850. Printed at the Congressional Globe Office.
• Julian, G. W. (1872). Speeches on political questions, 1850–1868. Hurd and Houghton.
• Julian, G. W. (1884). Political recollections, 1840 to 1872. Jansen, McClurg.
• Poore, B. P. (1886). Perley's reminiscences of sixty years in the national metropolis (2 vols.). Hubbard Brothers.
• Sargent, N. (1875). Public men and events from the commencement of Mr. Monroe's administration, in 1817, to the close of Mr. Fillmore's administration, in 1853 (2 vols.). J. B. Lippincott.
• Seward, F. W. (1891). Seward at Washington, as senator and secretary of state: A memoir of his life, with selections from his letters. Derby and Miller.
• Strong, G. T. (1952). The diary of George Templeton Strong (A. Nevins & M. H. Thomas, Eds.; 4 vols.). Macmillan.
• Webster, D. (1853). The works of Daniel Webster (E. Everett, Ed.; 6 vols.). Little, Brown.
• Weed, T. (1884). Life of Thurlow Weed, including his autobiography and a memoir (H. A. Weed & T. W. Barnes, Eds.; 2 vols.). Houghton Mifflin.
• Wilson, H. (1875–1877). History of the rise and fall of the slave power in America (3 vols.). J. R. Osgood.

See also

• Whig Party (United States)
• 1848 United States presidential election
• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
• Popular sovereignty in the United States

Further reading

• Crawford, J. E. (2002). Millard Fillmore: A bibliography. Greenwood Press.
• Farrell, J. J. (Ed.). (1971). Zachary Taylor, 1784–1850, Millard Fillmore, 1800–1874: Chronology, documents, bibliographical aids. Oceana Publications.

References

External links

• American Presidency Project: Millard Fillmore
• Miller Center: Millard Fillmore
• Millard Fillmore Presidential Site