Monday, December 14, 2009

Millard Fillmore 13th President 1850 -1853



Millard Filmore 1800- 1874

13th US President

Whig

Vice President - none.

First Lady(s) Abigail Powers Caroline Carmichael McIntosh

Millard Fillmore took office when Zachary Taylor died suddenly. The Compromise of 1850 was his great achievement. Admitting California as a free state while the territories won from Mexico had no slave restrictions. The slave trade was abolished in Washington DC. under the compromise.

Millard Fillmore quotes:

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
Millard Fillmore

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.
Millard Fillmore

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