Millard Fillmore

 
      13th President of the United States     (July 9, 1850 to March 3, 1853)  
             
             
             
      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  
      Religion: Unitarian   Stepmother: Eunice Love  
      Occupation: Lawyer   Education: No formal education  
      Nickname: "The American Louis Philippe"   Political Party: Whig  
             
             
             

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)

Other Government Positions:   Points of Interest:
  • 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
 
  • after Fillmore's term, he became the chancellor of the University of Buffalo
  • the first president to have a stepmother
  • the White House's first library, bathtub and kitchen stove were installed by the Fillmores
  • refused an honorary degree from Oxford University because he felt he had "neither literary nor scientific attainment"

 

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