FILLMORE, Millard [1800-1884] -- American politician, 13° POTUS
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13° POTUS
a/k/a
United States, POTUS 13United States, vPOTUS 12
Elected vice president in 1848, he succeeded as president on Zachary Taylor's death, becoming the 13th President of the United States. His policies pleased neither the expansionists nor the slaveholders and he was not re-nominated by his party in 1852. In 1856 he was nominated by the American Party (Know Nothings) but was defeated by James Buchanan, despite Whig support.
His presidency was most noted for the Missouri Compromise of 1850, which postponed the Civil War for several years.
In 1853 he sent a trade mission to Japan,
placing
Commodore Matthew Perry ? in command. 
Chronology |
1823 | Admitted to the bar, he sets up a law practice in East Aurora, NY |
1826 | Marries Abigail Powers, his former teacher |
1828 | In Albany as an Anti-Masonic member of the state assembly |
1832 | Elected to Congress on the Anti-Masonic ticket |
1834 | Fillmore moves to the Whig party |
1836 | Elected to Congress as a Whig, served three terms, declining renomination in 1842 |
1846 | First chancellor of U. of Buffalo |
1847 | Elected state comptroller |
1848 | He was the successful Whig candidate for Vice President |
1850 | Zachary Taylor dies, Fillmore now president (13th POTUS) |
1850-1853 | A lackluster presidency causes him to lose his partyé nomination for reelection |
1853 | First wife dies |
1853 | First American president to send a trade mission to Japan (1853) |
1855 | A founder of Buffalo General Hospital |
1856 | He receives the Know-Nothing presidential nomination, but runs a distant third to Democrat James Buchanan and Republican John Fremont |
1858 | Fillmore remarries, to a wealthy Albany widow |
1862 | Fillmore and associates found the Buffalo Historical Society, Fillmore is first president of the Society |
Bookmarks (off-site links) |
- IPL POTUS -- Millard Fillmore
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- Millard Fillmore's Bathtub This urban myth is the result of a hoax perpetrated in 1917 by H. L. Mencken.
- Millard Fillmore - Viewpoint from Santa Fe by Jay Miller - Southern New Mexico Online! Without Fillmore, all of present-day New Mexico east of the Rio Grande would be in Texas.
- U.S. Senate Statistics: Vice President Millard Fillmore
- Committee on Ways and Means, Millard Fillmore (W-OH)
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- Millard Fillmore The American Whig review / 8:4 p.341ff (Oct 1848)
- Biography of Millard Fillmore the White House page
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- Google Kids and Teens > School Time > Social Studies > History > By Region > North America > United States > Presidents > Fillmore, Millard
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