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Mar 13, 2024 · Millard Fillmore (born January 7, 1800, Locke township, New York, U.S.—died March 8, 1874, Buffalo, New York) was the 13th president of the United States (1850–53), whose insistence on federal enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 alienated the North and led to the destruction of the Whig Party. Elected vice president in 1848, he ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Famous Political Figures. U.S. Presidents. Millard Fillmore is best known for assuming the presidency after the death of Zachary Taylor, becoming the 13th U.S. president. Updated: Sep 24, 2020....
Millard Fillmore, a member of the Whig party, was the 13th President of the United States (1850-1853) and the last President not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican...
Scholarly essays, speeches, photos, and other resources on Millard Fillmore, the 13th US president (1850-1853), including information about his succession to the presidency, slavery, and the Compromise of 1850.
Feb 2, 2024 · Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853. He assumed the presidency upon the death of President Zachary Taylor and was the last president of the Whig Party.
Millard Fillmore. Millard Fillmore became president upon the death of Zachary Taylor in July 1850. Born in upstate Cayuga County, New York on January 7, 1800, Fillmore as a youth endured the privations of frontier life. He worked on his father’s farm, and at 15 was apprenticed to a cloth maker.
Millard Fillmore: Life in Brief. By Michael Holt. Born into desperate poverty at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Millard Fillmore climbed to the highest office in the land—and inherited a nation breaking into fragments over the question of slavery. Despite his best efforts, the lines of the future battles of the Civil War were drawn, and ...
