- Millard Fillmore was an American politician who served as the 13th President of the United States from 1850 to 1853
| Born: | 07 January 1800 Comment | | When did Millard Fillmore die? / Died | 08 March 1874 | | How many years did Millard Fillmore live? / Lived | 74 years | | Zodiac sign: | Capricorn |
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Millard Fillmore facts
- He was the last Whig president, and the last president not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties
- Fillmore was the only Whig president who did not die in office or get expelled from the party, and Fillmore appointed the only Whig Supreme Court Justice
- As Zachary Taylor's vice president, he assumed the presidency after Taylor's death
- Fillmore was a lawyer from western New York state, and an early member of the Whig Party
- He served in the state legislature (1829–1831), as a U
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- Representative (1833–35, 1837–43), and as New York State Comptroller (1848–1849)
- He was elected vice president of the United States in 1848 as Taylor's running mate, and served from 1849 until Taylor's death in 1850, at the height of the "Crisis of 1850" over slavery
- As an anti-slavery moderate, he opposed abolitionist demands to exclude slavery from all the territory gained in the Mexican War
- Instead he supported the Compromise of 1850, which briefly ended the crisis
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