Gadsden Purchase
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The Gadsden Purchase, also known as the Treaty of Mesilla, is a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico. The f
c. 1831 portrait of James Gadsden by Charles Fraser
U.S. Secretary of State James Buchanan (1791–1868), who later became 15th President of the United States (1857–1861)
Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico
The Gadsden Purchase historical marker near Interstate 10
Millard Fillmore's tenure as the 13th president of the United States began on July 9, 1850, upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, and ended on March 4, 1853. Fillmore, the last Whig president, h
Portrait, 1850
1851 poster warning that the Boston police enforce the Fugitive Slave Act
Official White House portrait of Millard Fillmore
Statue of Fillmore outside City Hall in downtown Buffalo, New York