Millard Fillmore
(July 9, 1850 to March 3, 1853)

Born: January 7, 1800
Died: March 8, 1874

Political Party: Whig
Previous Occupation: Lawyer

Elected From: New York
Vice President: None
Cabinet Members: view list

Other Government Positions: · Member of New York State Assembly, 1828-31 · Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1833-35 · Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1837-45 · Comptroller of New York, 1847 · Vice President, 1849-1850 (under Taylor)

Inaugural Address: none
Biography: view

Presidential Highlights:
· Approved the Compromise of 1850 (allowed states entering the Union to decide for themselves whether to be free or slave holding states, and required free states to capture escaped slaves and return them to their masters in the south). Both Northerners and Southerners disliked this compromise. Southerners disliked it because they feared that more states would enter the Union as free states. Northerners disliked it because the compromise required free states to enforce slavery through the capturing of escaped slaves.

Presidential Election:

1850
Death of Zachary Taylor

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