Historical Figure
Millard Fillmore
1800–1874
President of the United States from 1850 to 1853
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Death
1874 March 8, 1874 →Biography
Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853. He was the last president to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House, and the last to be neither a Democrat nor a Republican. A former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Fillmore was elected vice president in 1848, and succeeded to the presidency when Zachary Taylor died in 1850. Fillmore was instrumental in passing the Compromise of 1850, which led to a brief truce in the battle over the expansion of slavery.
Timeline
Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States of America and Millard Fillmore, 12th Vice President, did not take their respective oaths of office (they did so the following day), leading to the erroneous theory that outgoing President pro tempore of the United States Senate David Rice Atchison had assumed the role of acting president for one day.
March 4 →U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies after eating raw fruit and iced milk; he is succeeded in office by Vice President Millard Fillmore.
July 9 →U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.
July 10 →U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore succeeds him as 13th President of the United States.
July 9 →Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.
July 10 →Die zuwanderer- und katholikenfeindliche Know-Nothing-Bewegung nominiert in Philadelphia ihren ersten Präsidentschaftskandidaten, den früheren Präsidenten Millard Fillmore.
February 18 →The American Party (''Know-Nothings'') convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.
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