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Millard Fillmore

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January 7, 1800 - March 8, 1874 Thirteenth president of the United States (1850-53); Anti-mason in his youth, he later invited the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia to lay the cornerstone for the extension of the Capitol in Washington, DC, on July 4, 1851. He also was present, September 1872, at the masonic cornerstone laying at the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane. Although Millard Fillmore was not a freemason, his uncle, Jesse Millard, was a freemason in Michigan. Non-mason