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Millard Fillmore
13th President of the United States
(July 9, 1850 to March 3, 1853)
Nickname: "The American Louis Philippe"
Born: January 7, 1800, in Locke Township (now Summerhill), New York
Died: March 8, 1874 in Buffalo, New York
Father: Nathaniel Fillmore
Mother: Phoebe Millard Fillmore
Stepmother: Eunice Love
Married: Abigail Powers (1798-1853), on February 5, 1826; Caroline Carmichael McIntosh (1813-1881), on February 10, 1858
Children: Millard Powers Fillmore (1828-89); Mary Abigail Fillmore (1832-54)
Religion: Unitarian
Education: No formal education
Occupation: Lawyer
Political Party: Whig
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)
Presidential Salary: $25,000/year
Vice President: None
Cabinet:
- Secretary of State
- John M. Clayton (1850)
- Daniel Webster (1850-52)
- Edward Everett (1852-53)
- Secretary of the Treasury
- William M. Meredith (1850)
- Thomas Corwin (1850-53)
- Secretary of War
- George W. Crawford (1850)
- Charles M. Conrad (1850-53)
- Attorney General
- Reverdy Johnson (1850)
- John J. Crittenden (1850-53)
- Postmaster General
- Jacob Collamer (1850)
- Nathan K. Hall (1850-52)
- Samuel D. Hubbard (1852-53)
- Secretary of the Navy
- William B. Preston (1850)
- William A. Graham (1850-52)
- John P. Kennedy (1852-53)
- Secretary of the Interior
- Thomas Ewing (1850)
- Thomas M. T. McKennan (1850)
- Alexander H. H. Stuart (1850-53)
- 1850
- Congress passed the Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Act in September.
- After Fillmore's term, he became the chancellor of the University of Buffalo.
- Fillmore was the first president to have a stepmother.
- The White House's first library, bathtub and kitchen stove were installed by the Fillmores.
- Fillmore refused an honorary degree from Oxford University because he felt he had "neither literary nor scientific attainment."
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