Political
Rare President Millard Fillmore Carte de Visite Photograph Negative by Mathew Brady's National Portrait Gallery
c. 1855-1865 Carte de Visite Photograph, of Millard Fillmore (13th President of the United States 1850–1853), image by Mathew B. Brady, Very Fine.
Classic seated pose from the original Brady negative, the text “Brady, NY” seen within a circle at left, just above Fillmore’s right hand. This historic CDV Photo of Fillmore using the Civil War Era by Negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery, their blue stamped imprint on the reverse, with a printed tag from “Earles’ Galleries & Looking Glass of Philadelphia.” above. This very rare Carte de Visite measures about 2.5" x 4" has some light even handling and is very nice for display.
Millard Fillmore (1800 - 1874) was the 13th President of the United States (1850–1853) and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president. As Zachary Taylor's Vice President, he assumed the Presidency after Taylor's death.

Fillmore opposed the proposal to keep slavery out of the territories annexed during the Mexican–American War in order to appease the South and so supported the Compromise of 1850, which he signed, including the Fugitive Slave Act ("Bloodhound Law") which was part of the compromise. On the foreign policy front, he furthered the rising trade with Japan and clashed with the French over Napoleon III's attempt to annex Hawaii and with the French and the British over the attempt of Narciso López to invade Cuba.

After his presidency, he joined the Know-Nothing movement; throughout the Civil War, he opposed President Abraham Lincoln and during Reconstruction supported President Andrew Johnson. He is consistently included in the bottom 10 of historical rankings of Presidents of the United States.