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Millard Fillmore: “In the expression of individual regret at this afflicting event the Executive Departments of the Government will be…”

On the recordOctober 24, 1852
In the expression of individual regret at this afflicting event the Executive Departments of the Government will be careful to manifest every observance of honor which custom has established as appropriate to the memory of one so eminent as a public functionary and so distinguished as a citizen.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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