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Currier and Ives -

"Press Onward" Zachary Taylor "The People's President" and M. Fillmore, "Choice for Vice President" from 1849 to 1853.

12th President, Zachary Taylor

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Lived from November 24, 1784 to July 9, 1850 (aged 65)

President from March 4, 1849 to July 9, 1850

Former Major General of the 1st Infantry Regiment, US Army (1846-1849)

Vice President: Millard Fillmore

13th President, Millard Fillmore

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Lived from January 7, 1800 to March 8, 1874 (aged 74)

President from July 9, 1850 to March 4, 1853

Former 12th Vice President of the United States

When Fillmore was President, he had no Vice President.

Currier and Ives was a New York printmaking firm that operated from 1857 until 1907. Nathaniel Currier was a printmaker who started the business and James Ives, who started as the firm's bookkeeper, became Currier's partner in 1857. Neither man was an artist. The prints were drawn and lithographed by other persons, such as J. E. Butterworth, George H. Durrie, Louis Maurer, Frances or "Fanny" Flora Bond Palmer, Charles Parsons, Napoleon Sarony, and Thomas Worth to name a few. Nathaniel Currier died in 1888 and James Ives died in 1895. The firm carried on until 1907 under the direction of their sons, Edward West Currier and Chauncey Ives.


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