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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