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What did the queen of england think of millard fillmore?

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I have a history report and i cannot find this anywhere if someone could help me out I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

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  1. This might not be what you are looking for, but it's interesting

    From:  Look Homeward, America, by Bill Kauffman

    The book’s other chapters celebrate the lives and idiosyncrasies of a wide range of people not often celebrated. The least obscure of this bunch is President Millard Fillmore, of whom very little has ever been approvingly said other than Queen Victoria’s observation that he was the handsomest man she had ever met. Kauffman tries hard to make his fellow upstate New Yorker (Fillmore originated in East Aurora, long before Hubbard’s time) look good. He was, Kauffman reports, a “fine if not outstanding president,” mainly because as a “Peace Whig” he opposed the Mexican War, the proposed annexation of Cuba, and the fire-eaters on both sides who eventually produced the bloody convulsion of the Civil War.

    http://reason.com/news/show/117070.html


  2. Depended upon the web site visited, Millard Fillmore was either "the handsomest man" Queen Victoria had seen or else "the most courtly American it had been her pleasure to meet".   The latter source sounds more believable since the 13th President of the United States reportedly turned down an honorary doctorate from Oxford, refusing to accept a diploma whose Latin inscription he couldn't read.  Not bad for a former indentured servant, although his Wikipedia picture shows a handsome man.

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