Millard Fillmore Facts - 13th President of USA

Thirteenth President of the United States of America Millard Fillmore facts. Millard Fillmore was born in Moravia, Cayuga County, in New York State in a log cabin to his parents Nathaniel Fillmore and Phoebe Millard.

Millard Fillmore Life

He was the second oldest child and the oldest son. He was born on January 7, 1800. He was a Unitarian later in his life, but as a child was descended from the Scottish Presbyterians on the side of his father and the English dissenters on the side of his mother's.

He was apprenticed at age fourteen to a brutal maker of cloth in Sparta New York by his father, but he left after only about four months and took a different apprenticeship in clothmaking.

Millard Fillmore Education

He found it difficult to get an education under the challenging conditions of the frontier. He became a clerk for a Judge and began to study law.

Millard Fillmore Marriage

Millard Fillmore married Abigail Powers on February 5, 1826. They had two children:  Millard Powers Fillmore and Mary Abigail Fillmore. After he bought out his apprenticeship, Fillmore moved to Buffalo, New York, and continued his studies in the law offices of Joseph Clary and Asa Rice.

Millard Fillmore Career

He became a member of the bar in 1823 and started his law practice located in East Aurora. He started a law partnership with his good friend, and his firm became very prestigious.  He founded the University of Buffalo in 1846, and today it is the public State University of New York at Buffalo.

President Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore was the thirteenth President of the United States, and he served in this capacity from 1850 until 1853. He was the final member of the Whig Party to have the office of President. He was the second Vice President to have the presidency following the death of a sitting president, as he succeeded Zachary Taylor.

Fillmore was actually never elected to president. After his term was completed, he did not get the nomination of the Whig party for president - Millard Fillmore Facts. During his presidency, he had a hard time keeping the Whig party together. Many of the northern Whigs were very displeased over Fillmore's signing of the Fugitive Slave Act.

Millard Fillmore died on March 8, 1874, due to the aftereffects of a stroke. Every year on January 7, a ceremony is held at the site of his grave in the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York.

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NICKNAME
The American Louis Phillippe
Last of the Whigs

BIRTH
Millard Fillmore was born on January 7, 1800

MOTHER
Phoebe Millard

FATHER
Nathaniel Fillmore

SISTERS
Olive Armstrong, Julia, and Phoebe Maria

BROTHERS
Cyrus, Almon Hopkins, Calvin Turner, Darius Ingraham, and Charles Dewitt

MARRIAGE
First Wife: Abigail Powers in February 1826
Second Wife: Caroline Carmichael Mcintosh on February 10, 1858

CHILDREN
Millard Powers and Mary Abigail

EDUCATION
Attended public schools
Studied law in Cayuga County and Buffalo, N.Y.

RELIGION
Unitarian

PRE-PRESIDENCY PROFESSION
Lawyer

MILITARY SERVICE
Served as major in the Union Continentals (Home guard of Buffalo) during the Civil War

POLITICAL LIFE

New York assemblyman (1829-1831)
US Representative (1833-1835) and (1837-1843)
New York state comptroller (1848-1849)
Vice President (1849-1850)
US President one term (July 9, 1850-March 4, 1853)

POLITICAL PARTY
Whig

INAUGURATION
Inaugurated on July 10, 1850, at the age of 50. He did not give an inaugural address

Millard Fillmore Administration

SECRETARY OF STATE
Daniel Webster (1850-1852)
Edward Everett (1852-1853)

SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
Thomas Corwin (1850-1853)

SECRETARY OF WAR
Charles M. Conrad (1850-1853)

ATTORNEY GENERAL
John J Crittenden (1850-1853)

POSTMASTER GENERAL
Nathan K. Hall (1850-1852)
Samual D. Hubbard (1852-1853)

SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
William A. Graham (1850-1852)
John P. Kennedy (1852-1853)

SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
Thomas M. T. McKennan (1850, August)
Alexander H.H. Stuart (1850-1853)

Millard Fillmore Cabinet
PRESIDENCY
One term (July 9, 1850-March 4, 1853)

VICE PRESIDENT
None

FIRST LADY
Abigail Fillmore (1850-1854)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Benjamin R. Curtis (1851)

STATES ADMITTED TO UNION
California (1850)

POST PRESIDENCY LIFE

Politician; Chancellor of the University of Buffalo

DEATH
March 8, 1874, in Buffalo N.Y. at the age of

BURIAL PLACE
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.

LANDMARKS
Fillmore Glen State Park, Moravia, N.Y. (reconstructed birthplace)
The Fillmore House, East Aurora, N.Y.
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.