Millard Fillmore Campaign Ribbon, 1856
name: label: depicted
content: Fillmore, Millard
label: referenced
content: Donelson, Andrew Jackson
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
topic: label: used
content: Political Campaigns
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content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ralph E. Becker Collection of Political Americana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.227739.1856.J05
label: catalog number
content: 227739.1856.J05
label: accession number
content: 227739
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ribbon
label: Object Type
content: ribbon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pink; black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 2 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 6.35 cm