Shortly after taking office President Millard Fillmore appoints a temporary Solicitor of the Treasury

Document Signed as President, July 23, 1850 appointing Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department Benjamin F. Pleasants to take charge as Solicitor of the department during the illness of John C. Clark. Very good condition, signed just 2 weeks after assuming the presidency on the death of Zachary Taylor. Clark was a former Congressman and was Solicitor of the Treasury from 1849 to 1852. Pleasants served in the Treasury Department for almost 50 years and was occasionally called on to serve as Acting Solicitor in cases like these.