The biggest thing was probably the Compromise of 1850. Also, California was admitted as a state.
Fillmore was a Whig. He was the last of four Whig presidents.
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The 13th President of the United States, Millard Fillmore died on Mar 8, 1874 in Buffalo, New York.
he failed to keep the whig party together and was in favor of the slave issue missouri compromise
None that we were involved in, no.
Millard Fillmore served as President of the United States July 9, 1850 - March 4, 1853. California is the only state admitted into the union while Millard Fillmore was President. California was admitted into the Union on September 9, 1850 becoming the 31st state to join the Union.
Fillmore himself was originally Zachary Taylor's VP. When Taylor died in office, Fillmore became President.
Before the ratification of the 25th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution in February, 1967, whenever the vice presidency was vacated due to the death or resignation of the vice president or the president, the office just remained vacant until the next Inauguration Day.
Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States
Millard Fillmore was born in a log cabin in Cayuga County New York in 1800. He was the second of nine children and he had very little formal education. His father was a farmer and carpenter so Millard was expected to help with the family business from a young age. At the age of 15 he became an apprentice to a cloth-maker and by 21 he had saved enough money to open his own cloth-making business. By the time he was 23 he was elected to the New York State Assembly and was chosen as Speaker of the Assembly. He was then elected to the U.S. House of Representatives where he served for five terms. In 1848 he became the 13th Vice President of the United States and in 1850 he became the 13th President of the United States.
President Millard Fillmore sent a naval expedition to Japan to attempt to have diplomatic and commercial treaties signed. The treaties purpose were to open Japan up to the Western world. There was also an intent to make sure that ship-wrecked sailors who washed ashore in Japanese territory would be treated humanely.
Yes, he's on the Presidential Series $1 coins issued during the first few months of 2010. You can ask at any major bank to see if they have any rolls of the coins left in storage. Alternately you can ask for loose coins and go through them to see if there are any with Fillmore's image.
All of them are only worth $1 in circulated condition so you can simply spend any that have other images on them, or start a full collection.
No. In fact, he was not able to get his party's nomination to run for another term, eventually losing out to Winfield Scott.
Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States, was born on Tuesday, January 7, 1800 in Summerhill, New York. At the time it was called Locke Township. Of all who became U.S. President, he was 14th and last to be born in the 18th century.
President Fillmore wanted the Japanese to have better treatment of the sailors ship wrecked on the Japanese Islands and to have foreign relations with the US and Japan.
Millard Fillmore was elected the nation's 12th Vice President in 1848 as the running mate of Zachery Taylor. Zachery Taylor won the 1848 presidential election defeating Lewis Cass. In the 1848 presidential election Zachery Taylor and his running mate Millard Fillmore received 163 electoral votes. Lewis Cass and his running mate received 127 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Zachery Taylor and his running mate Millard Fillmore 1,361,393 and Lewis Cass and his running mate 1,223,460.
Millard Fillmore succeeded to the presidency upon the death of Zachary Taylor.
Fillmore ran for President in 1856 for the American(aka Know-Party) and won 21.6 % of the popular vote. He was touring Europe when he was nominated and I don't think he knew that he was under consideration for the nomination. When he was notified that he had been nominated, he accepted. He was no doubt flattered that he was still remembered and the nomination was a kind of vindication from his slight by the Whigs in 1848 when they refused to run him for a second term.
Though he was born into a very poor family, Millard Fillmore struggled for an education and even got a teaching job though he never attended college. He also taught himself enoungh about the law to join the bar at the age of 23. He served in Congress for four terms when the Whigs made him Zachary Taylor;s running mate. As President, Millard Fillmore delayed the Civil War by a decade by signing the Compromise of 1850. In 1856 he ran for the presidency as a member of the Know Nothing Party. He wanted to unite the country behind anti-Catholicism and nativism, but he carried only Maryland.