Millard Fillmore
- Millard Fillmore, the 13th President of the United States of America, served from July 9, 1850 to March 4, 1853.
Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th President of the United States (1850–1853) and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president. As Zachary Taylor‘s Vice President, he assumed the presidency after Taylor’s death.
Fillmore opposed the proposal to keep slavery out of the territories annexed during the Mexican–American War (to appease the South), and so supported the Compromise of 1850, which he signed, including the Fugitive Slave Act (“Bloodhound Law”) which was part of the compromise. On the foreign policy front, he furthered the rising trade with Japan and clashed with the French over Napoleon III‘s attempt to annex Hawaii, and with the French and the British over the attempt of Narciso López to invade Cuba. After his presidency, he joined the Know-Nothing movement; throughout the Civil War, he opposed President Lincoln and during Reconstruction supported President Johnson.
Fillmore co-founded the University of Buffalo and helped found the Buffalo Historical Society.
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on Sep 13 2011. Filed under 19th Century Presidents, Millard Fillmore, The Whig Party.
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