January 7, 1800 - Millard Fillmore

Fillmore's place on this site rests primarily on his signing of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required citizens and officials in free states to assist in the capture and return of escaped enslaved people — a measure that intensified sectional conflict and directly enabled the re-enslavement of individuals who had reached nominal freedom. His willingness to enforce the compromise as a condition of preserving the Union satisfied neither side and effectively ended his political viability, while causing measurable harm to thousands of people whose legal status it reversed.

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Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) 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.

Fillmore was born into poverty in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York. He had little formal schooling, but studied to become a lawyer. Fillmore became prominent in the Buffalo area as an attorney and politician, and was elected to the New York Assembly in 1828 and the House of Representatives in 1832. Fillmore initially belonged to the Anti-Masonic Party, but became a member of the Whig Party as it formed in the mid-1830s.

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