Andrew Jackson Donelson was an American politician. He was born in 1800 and died in 1871. A nephew of General Andrew Jackson, he was private secretary to his uncle during the latter's Presidency, Minister to Prussia and the German Confederation from 1846 to 1849, and in 1856 was nominated for the Vice-Presidency by the American party on the ticket with Fillmore. Research Andrew Donelson
Millard Fillmore was the thirteenth president of the USA from 1850 to 1853. He was born in 1800 at Locke, New York and died in 1874. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1823 and began practice in Aurora, New York, and by the mid-19th century was a recognised political leader of New York state, being elected to the state assembly in 1828 after which he secured the passage of a law abolishing imprisonment for debt. He represented New York as a Whig in the Congress of the United States from 1833 until 1835, and again from 1837 until 1843, when he served as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and drafted the tariff bill of 1842. From 1847 until 1849 he was State Controller.
In 1848 he was elected Vice-President of the United States on the Whig ticket with Zachary Taylor for President. He became president upon the death of President Taylor in 1850. During his administration the Compromise Acts of 1850 were passed and the Japanese expedition of 1853 was arranged. In 1856 he was defeated as the National American candidate for President of the United States. He commanded a corps during the American Civil War, and was president, of the Buffalo Historical Society. Research Millard Fillmore
The Mormons are a religious sect originally located in Utah and the Territories and States in its neighbourhood. The sect was founded by Joseph Smith, of Sharon, Vermont, and Palmyra, New York, the first organized conference being held on June the 1st, 1830, at Fayette, New York. The distinguishing features of their belief are polygamy, materialism and baptism for the remission of sins. The Mormons first settled in Missouri, but were expelled thence, probably because of their anti-slavery sentiments. In 1839. they settled at Nauvoo, Illinois. In 1844 an Illinois mob killed the leader Smith. Emigrating again, by 1848 they were settled at Salt Lake City. Brigham Young, the president, was appointed Governor of Utah Territory in 1850 by President Fillmore, but he turned out to be wholly in sympathy with the Mormons, and resisted the Federal troops in 1857. For many years after the American Government experienced many difficulties in regulating the relations of the Mormons and Christians in Salt Lake City. In 1883 the Edmunds Act disfranchised polygamists. Research Mormons
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