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Millard Fillmore: “The members of the Cabinet are requested, as a further testimony of respect for the deceased, to wear the usual badges…”

On the recordOctober 24, 1852
The members of the Cabinet are requested, as a further testimony of respect for the deceased, to wear the usual badges of mourning for thirty days.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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Executive Order

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