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| Name |
Millard Fillmore |
| Prefix |
President |
| Birth |
7 Jan 1800 |
Summerhill, Cayuga, New York, United States  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
8 Mar 1874 |
Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
23 Aug 1877 |
SGEOR |
| FamilySearch ID |
KTZJ-1Q3 |
| Burial |
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I91540 |
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| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Nathaniel Fillmore, Jr, b. 19 Apr 1771, Bennington, Bennington, Vermont, United States d. 28 Mar 1863, Aurora, Cayuga, New York, United States (Age 91 years) |
| Mother |
Phoebe Millard, b. 12 Aug 1781, Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States d. 2 Apr 1831, Aurora, Erie, New York, United States (Age 49 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1796 |
Bennington, Bennington, Vermont, United States |
| Family ID |
F30179 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Abigail Powers, b. 13 Mar 1798, Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, United States d. 30 Mar 1853, Washington, District of Columbia, United States (Age 55 years) |
| Marriage |
5 Feb 1826 |
Moravia, Cayuga, New York, United States |
| Children |
| | 1. Millard Powers Fillmore, b. 25 Apr 1828, Aurora, Erie, New York, United States d. 15 Nov 1889, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States (Age 61 years) |
| | 2. Mary Abigail Fillmore, b. 27 Mar 1832, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States d. 26 Jul 1854, Aurora, Erie, New York, United States (Age 22 years) |
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| Family ID |
F30182 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
5 May 2024 |
| Family 2 |
Caroline Carmichael, b. 21 Oct 1813, Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, United States d. 11 Aug 1881 (Age 67 years) |
| Marriage |
10 Feb 1858 |
Albany, Albany, New York, United States |
| Family ID |
F30183 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
5 May 2024 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 7 Jan 1800 - Summerhill, Cayuga, New York, United States |
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 | Marriage - 5 Feb 1826 - Moravia, Cayuga, New York, United States |
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 | Marriage - 10 Feb 1858 - Albany, Albany, New York, United States |
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 | Death - 8 Mar 1874 - Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 23 Aug 1877 - SGEOR |
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 | Burial - - Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States |
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| Notes |
- 13th President of the United States.
He was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 185 3 , the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House . A f ormer member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Upstate Ne w York , Fillmore was elected as the 12th vice president in 1848, and suc ceede d to the presidency in July 1850 upon the death of U.S. President Z achar y Taylor. Fillmore was instrumental in the passing of the Compromis e of 1 850, a bargain that led to a brief truce in the battle over the ex pansio n of slavery. He failed to win the Whig nomination for president i n 185 2 but gained the endorsement of the nativist Know Nothing Party fou r year s later and finished third in the 1856 presidential election.
Fillmore was born into poverty in the Finger Lakes area of New York Stat e , and his parents were tenant farmers during his formative years. Thou g h he had little formal schooling, he rose from poverty by diligent stu d y to become a successful attorney. He became prominent in the Buffalo a re a as an attorney and politician, and he was elected to the New York As sem bly in 1828 and to the House of Representatives in 1832. Initially, h e be longed to the Anti-Masonic Party, but he became a member of the Whi g Part y as formed in the mid-1830s. He was a rival for the state party l eadersh ip with the editor Thurlow Weed and Weed's protégé, William H. Se ward. Th roughout his career, Fillmore declared slavery an evil but tha t it was be yond the powers of the federal government. Seward was openl y hostile to s lavery and argued that the federal government had a role t o play in endin g it. Fillmore was an unsuccessful candidate for Speake r of the U.S. Hous e of Representatives when the Whigs took control of th e chamber in 1841 , but he was made the chairman of the Ways and Means Co mmittee. Defeate d in bids for the Whig nomination for vice president i n 1844 and for Ne w York governor the same year, Fillmore was elected Com ptroller of New Yo rk in 1847, the first to hold that post by direct elec tion.
As vice president, Fillmore was largely ignored by Taylor, and even in t h e dispensing of patronage in New York, Taylor consulted Weed and Sewar d . In his capacity as president of the Senate, however, Fillmore presid e d over the Senate's angry debates, as the 31st Congress decided whethe r t o allow slavery in the Mexican Cession. Fillmore, unlike Taylor, supp orte d Henry Clay's Omnibus Bill, which was the basis of the 1850 Comprom ise . Upon becoming president in July 1850, Fillmore dismissed Taylor's c abin et and pushed Congress to pass the compromise. The Fugitive Slave Ac t, ex pediting the return of escaped slaves to those who claimed ownershi p, wa s a controversial part of the compromise. Fillmore felt duty-boun d to enf orce it despite its damage to the popularity of both him and th e Whig Par ty, which was torn between its Northern and Southern factions . In foreig n policy, Fillmore supported U.S. Navy expeditions to open tr ade in Japan , opposed French designs on Hawaii, and was embarrassed by N arciso López' s filibuster expeditions to Cuba. Fillmore sought the Whi g nomination t o a full term in 1852 but was passed over by the Whigs i n favor of Winfie ld Scott.
As the Whig Party broke up after Fillmore's presidency, many in his cons e rvative wing joined the Know Nothings and formed the American Party. I n h is 1856 candidacy as the party's nominee, Fillmore had little to sa y abou t immigration, focused instead on the preservation of the Union, a nd wo n only Maryland. During the American Civil War, Fillmore denounce d secess ion and agreed that the Union must be maintained by force if nec essary, b ut he was critical of Abraham Lincoln's war policies. After pea ce was res tored, he supported the Reconstruction policies of U.S. Presid ent Andre w Johnson. Fillmore remained involved in civic interests in ret irement, i ncluding as chancellor of the University of Buffalo, which h e had helpe d found in 1846.
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