The United States Mint released the 13th coin in the Presidential $1 Coin Program, bearing Fillmore's likeness
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Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853. He was the last president to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House, and the last to be neither a Democrat nor a Republican. A former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Fillmore was elected vice president in 1848, and succeeded to the presidency when Zachary Taylor died in 1850. Fillm…
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politics · President of the United States from 1850 to 1853 · politician · lawyer · statesperson · jurist · also Millard Fillmore, President Fillmore, M. Fillmore, Fillmore
Born 7 January 1800 · Died 8 March 1874 · Q12306
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2010· 2 entries
Anna Prior wrote in The Wall Street Journal that Fillmore's very name connotes mediocrity
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1874· 2 entries
Died 1874-03-08.
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“An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.”
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1858· 1 entry
When he married Caroline McIntosh, a well-to-do widow
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1857· 1 entry
Justice Curtis dissented from the Court's decision in the slavery case of Dred Scott v
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1856· 2 entries
Election lost: 1856 election.
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Campaign: 1856 election.
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1855· 2 entries
“only hope of forming a truly national party, which shall ignore this constant and distracting agitation of slavery.”
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Sent a letter for publication that warned against immigrant influence in American elections, and he soon joined the order
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1854· 1 entry
When his only daughter, Mary, died of cholera
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1852· 1 entry
Led to repeated fruitless attempts by the president to fill the vacancy
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1851· 1 entry
Had no political future in his home state
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1850· 3 entries
President Taylor sent a special message to Congress that urged the admission of California immediately and New Mexico later and for the Supreme Court to settle the boundary dispute whereby the state of Texas claimed much
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Career landmark: President of the United States (1850–1853).
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López and some of his followers were indicted for breach of the Neutrality Act but were quickly acquitted by friendly Southern juries
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1849· 2 entries
Career landmark: board member (1849–1850).
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Career landmark: Vice President of the United States (1849–1850).
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1848· 2 entries
And succeeded to the presidency when Zachary Taylor died in 1850
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Had left his law firm and rented out his house
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1846· 1 entry
Fillmore was involved in the founding of the University of Buffalo (now the University at Buffalo), became its first chancellor, and served until his death in 1874
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1844· 2 entries
And Fillmore and his party were tarred with that brush
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Fillmore was elected Comptroller of New York in 1847, the first to hold that post by election
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1841· 1 entry
But was made chairman of the Ways and Means Committee
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1839· 1 entry
Seward refused, nominated Frederick Whittlesey, and indicated that if the New York Senate rejected Whittlesey he still would not appoint Fillmore
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1837· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States representative (1837–1843).
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1834· 1 entry
Fillmore declined the Whig nomination, seeing that the two parties would split the anti-Jackson vote and elect the Democrat
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1833· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States representative (1833–1835).
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1832· 1 entry
Fillmore ran successfully for the U
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1829· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the New York State Assembly (1829–1831).
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1828· 1 entry
And the House of Representatives in 1832
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1823· 1 entry
Was admitted to the bar, declined offers from Buffalo law firms, and returned to East Aurora to establish a practice as the town's only resident lawyer
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1821· 1 entry
Fillmore turned 21, reaching adulthood
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1819· 2 entries
Took advantage of idle time at the mill to enroll at a new academy in the town, where he met and fell in love with a classmate, Abigail Powers
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Nathaniel moved the family to Montville, a hamlet of Moravia
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1800· 2 entries
In a log cabin, on a farm in what is now Moravia, in the Finger Lakes region of New York
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Born 1800-01-07.
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