194 MILLARD FILLMORE — FRANKLIN PlERCE. 



of this new State. He occupied Corpus Christi until the 

 1 2th of March, 1846, when he took the offensive against the 

 Mexicans, whom he routed. 



He died at Washington, on the 1st of July, 1850, after a 

 little over one year of office. He was succeeded by the then 

 Vice-President, Millard Fillmore. 



MILLARD FILLMORE, 1850— 1853. 



Millard Fillmore, the thirteenth President of the 

 United States, succeeded General Taylor in July, 1850, and 

 remained in office till 1853, Millard Fillmore was born at 

 Summer Hill (New York) on the 7th of January, 1800, of a 

 poor English family. He was educated in the parish school. 

 At the age of nineteen, he was articled as clerk with Barrister 

 Wood, and during the time that he remained with him, he 

 studied assiduously and took his degree. In 1829, he began 

 his political career as the representative of the county of 

 Eric (New York). He was nominated Member of the Congress 

 in 1832, and was re-elected several times in the same capacity. 

 In 1848, he was elected Vice-President. He died at Buffalo, 

 the 10th of March, 1874. 



FRANKLIN PIERCE, 1853— 1857. 



Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth President of the United 

 States, entered upon the duties of his office in March, 1853, 

 shortly before my arrival in that country. During his adminis- 

 tration was held the first American International Exhibition, 

 that of New York, which was a great success. The handsome 

 Central Park of New York was also begun during his ad- 

 ministration. 



Franklin Pierce was born at Hillborough, New Hampshire, 

 on the 23rd of March, 1804. At first he worked as a farmer, 

 but this work being uncongenial to him, at the age of twenty 

 he left farming, and went to study law at Northampton School, 

 Massachussets, and in the office of Judge Parker, in Amherst. 

 He took his degree of Barrister-at-Law in 1827, and went 

 to practice in his native town, which elected him two years 

 afterwards as their representative in the Legislative Assembly 

 of the State. He remained in that post from 1829 to 1832. 

 In 1833 he was elected Member of the Congress, and in 

 1839 Senator. In 1842 he retired to Concordia, New Hamp- 

 shire, and practised as a barrister. In 1847, a ^ the time of 



