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Historic Figures
The following historic figures have connections
to Buffalo and Western New York and are the focus of
Buffalo Presidential Center programs and exhibits
Millard Fillmore: Jan. 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874
13th President of the United States
Abigail Fillmore: March 13, 1798 – March 30, 1883
First Lady
Caroline Carmichael McIntosh Fillmore: October 21, 1813 –
August 11, 1881; second wife of Millard Fillmore
S. Grover Cleveland: March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908
22nd and 24th President of the United States
Frances Folsom Cleveland: July 21, 1864 – October 29, 1947
First Lady; the only Buffalo native to occupy the White House
Abraham Lincoln: February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865
16th President of the United States
William McKinley: January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901
25th President of the United States, assassinated in Buffalo in 1901
Theodore Roosevelt: October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919
26th President of the United States, inaugurated in Buffalo in 1901
Shirley A. Chisholm: November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005
First African-American woman elected to Congress; 7-term Member of Congress; first African-American candidate to seek a major party’s presidential nomination (1972)
Belva Ann Lockwood: October 24, 1830 – May 17, 1917
Suffragist; first female attorney to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court; first female presidential candidate (of the National Equal Rights Party, 1884 and 1888)
Jack F. Kemp: July 13, 1935 – May 2, 2009
Buffalo Bills championship quarterback; 9-term Member of Congress; Secretary of HUD; 1996 Republican vice presidential nominee
William E. Miller: March 22, 1914 – June 24, 1983
Prosecuting attorney at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials; 7-term Member of Congress; 1964 Republican vice presidential nominee.
Barber Conable: November 2, 1922 – November 30, 2003
New York State Senator; 10-term Member of Congress; President of the World Bank
William J. “Wild Bill” Donovan: January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959
Recipient of Medal of Honor for service in World War I; U.S. Attorney; New York gubernatorial candidate; director of the World War II Office of Strategic Services and considered the “Father of U.S. Intelligence.
Robert H. Jackson: February 13, 1892 – October 9, 1954
U.S. Attorney General; Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; Chief U.S. Prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials
John G. Roberts: born January 27, 1955
Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals; currently 17th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court