13th President Millard Fillmore

1800 - 1874  (74 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Millard Fillmore
  Prefix	13th President
  Birth	7 Jan 1800	Locke, New York, USA
  Gender	Male
  Prominent People	1850
  US President
  Death	8 Mar 1874	Buffalo, Erie Co., New York, USA
  Siblings	8 Siblings
  1. Olive Armstrong Fillmore,   b. 16 Dec 1797   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Henry S. Johnson,  m. 1816 + 2. 13th President Millard Fillmore,   b. 7 Jan 1800, Locke, New York, USA d. 8 Mar 1874, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York, USA  (Age 74 years) ▻ Abigail Powers,  m. 5 Feb 1826 ;   Caroline Carmichael McIntosh,  m. 10 Feb 1858   3. Cyrus Fillmore,   b. 22 Dec 1801   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Laura Morey,  m. 1825   4. Almon Hopkins Fillmore,   b. 13 Apr 1806   d. 17 Jan 1830  (Age 23 years)   5. Calvin Turner Fillmore,   b. 9 Jul 1810   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Miranda Waldo,  m. 1830   6. Julia Fillmore,   b. 29 Aug 1812   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ A. C. Harris,  m. 1840   7. Darius Ingraham Fillmore,   b. 16 Nov 1814   d. 9 Mar 1837  (Age 22 years)   8. Charles de Witt Fillmore,   b. 23 Sep 1817   d. 1854  (Age 36 years) ▻ Julia Etta Green,  m. 1840   9. Phoebe Maria Fillmore,   b. 23 Nov 1819   d. 2 Jul 1843  (Age 23 years)
  Person ID	I74882	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	2 Feb 2001

  
  

  Father	Nathaniel Fillmore,   b. 19 Apr 1771, Bennington county, Vermont, USA d. 28 Mar 1863, Aurora, New York, USA (Age 91 years)
  Mother	Phoebe Millard,   b. 12 Aug 1781, Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA d. 2 Apr 1831, Locke, Cayuga, NY (Age 49 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1796	Bennington county, Vermont, USA
  Family ID	F30442	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Abigail Powers,   b. 1798, Saratoga County, New York, USA d. 30 Mar 1853 (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	5 Feb 1826	Moravia, New York, USA
  Children	1. Millard Powers Fillmore,   b. 25 Apr 1828, Aurora, New York, USA d. 15 Nov 1889, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York, USA (Age 61 years)   2. Mary Abigail Fillmore,   b. 27 Mar 1832, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York, USA d. 26 Jul 1854, Aurora, New York, USA (Age 22 years)
  Family ID	F30440	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

  Family 2	Caroline Carmichael McIntosh,   b. 21 Oct 1813, Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, USA d. 11 Aug 1881, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York, USA (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	10 Feb 1858	Albany, New York, USA
  Family ID	F30441	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

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  Was never elected to office. Succeeded Zachary Taylor upon his death in 1850. Ran again unsuccessfully for the presidency in 1856. In his rise from a log cabin to wealth and the White House, Millard Fillmore demonstrated that through methodical industry and some competence an uninspiring man could make the American dream come true. Born in the Finger Lakes country of New York in 1800, Fillmore as a youth endured the privations of frontier life. He worked on his father's farm, and at 15 was apprenticed to a cloth dresser. He attended one-room schools, and fell in love with the redheaded teacher, Abigail Powers, who later became his wife. In 1823 he was admitted to the bar; seven years later he moved his law practice to Buffalo. As an associate of the Whig politician Thurlow Weed, Fillmore held state office and for eight years was a member of the House of Representatives. In 1848, while Comptroller of New York, he was elected Vice President. Fillmore presided over the Senate during the months of nerve-wracking debates over the Compromise of 1850. He made no public comment on the merits of the compromise proposals, but a few days before President Taylor's death, he intimated to him that if there should be a tie vote on Henry Clay's bill, he would vote in favor of it. Thus the sudden accession of Fillmore to the Presidency in July 1850 brought an abrupt political shift in the administration. Taylor's Cabinet resigned and President Fillmore at once appointed Daniel Webster to be Secretary of State, thus proclaiming his alliance with the moderate Whigs who favored the Compromise. A bill to admit California still aroused all the violent arguments for and against the extension of slavery, without any progress toward settling the major issues. Clay, exhausted, left Washington to recuperate, throwing leadership upon Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. At this critical juncture, President Fillmore announced in favor of the Compromise. On August 6, 1850, he sent a message to Congress recommending that Texas be paid to abandon her claims to part of New Mexico. This helped influence a critical number of northern Whigs in Congress away from their insistence upon the Wilmot Proviso--the stipulation that all land gained by the Mexican War must be closed to slavery. Douglas's effective strategy in Congress combined with Fillmore's pressure from the White House to give impetus to the Compromise movement. Breaking up Clay's single legislative package, Douglas presented five separate bills to the Senate: 1.Admit California as a free state. 2.Settle the Texas boundary and compensate her. 3.Grant territorial status to New Mexico. 4.Place Federal officers at the disposal of slaveholders seeking fugitives. 5.Abolish the slave trade in the District of Columbia. Each measure obtained a majority, and by September 20, President Fillmore had signed them into law. Webster wrote, "I can now sleep of nights." Some of the more militant northern Whigs remained irreconcilable, refusing to forgive Fillmore for having signed the Fugitive Slave Act. They helped deprive him of the Presidential nomination in 1852. Within a few years it was apparent that although the Compromise had been intended to settle the slavery controversy, it served rather as an uneasy sectional truce. As the Whig Party disintegrated in the 1850's, Fillmore refused to join the Republican Party; but, instead, in 1856 accepted the nomination for President of the Know Nothing, or American, Party. Throughout the Civil War he opposed President Lincoln and during Reconstruction supported President Johnson. He died in 1874.