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Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, the last president to have been a member of the Whig Party while in office.
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Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States. He was president from 1850 to 1853. He was the last Whig president, and the last president who was not a Democrat or Republican. Fillmore became president in 1850 when the previous president, Zachary Taylor, died. The Whig party did not pick him to ...
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 ...
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Oct 29, 2009 · Learn about the life and career of Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States who succeeded Zachary Taylor in 1850. Find out how he handled the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act, and the sectional crisis over slavery.
Learn about the life and presidency of Millard Fillmore, the 13th President of the United States and the last nonpartisan leader. Find out how he handled the Compromise of 1850 and the slavery issue in the face of sectional tensions.
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 Fillmore found himself rejected ...
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