Millard Fillmore
At a Glance
Term: 13th President of the United States (1850-1853)
Born: January 7, 1800, Summerhill, New York
Nickname: "The American Louis Philippe"
Education: Six months of grade school; read law in 1822
Religion: Unitarian
Marriage: February 5, 1826, to Abigail Powers (1798-1853); February 10, 1858, to Caroline Carmichael McIntosh (1813-1881)
Children: Millard Powers (1828-1889), Mary Abigail (1832-1854)
Career: Lawyer
Political Party: Whig
Died: March 8, 1874, Buffalo, New York
Buried: Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York
A Life in Brief: Born into desperate poverty at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Millard Fillmore climbed to the highest office in the land -- and inherited a nation breaking into fragments over the question of slavery. Despite his best efforts, the lines of the future battles of the Civil War were drawn, and Fillmore found himself rejected by his own dying party and denied renomination. More....
Essays on Millard Fillmore and His Administration
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Millard Fillmore
A Life in Brief • Life Before the Presidency • Campaigns and Elections • Domestic Affairs • Foreign Affairs • Life After the Presidency • Family Life • The American Franchise • Impact and Legacy • Key Events |
| First Lady Abigail Fillmore |
| Vice President none |
| Secretary of State John M. Clayton (1850 - 1850) • Daniel Webster (1850 - 1852) • Edward Everett (1852 - 1853) |
| Secretary of War Charles M. Conrad (1850 - 1853) • George W. Crawford (1850 - 1850) |
| Postmaster General Jacob Collamer (1850 - 1850) • Nathan K. Hall (1850 - 1852) • Samuel D. Hubbard (1852 - 1853) |
| Secretary of the Treasury Thomas Corwin (1850 - 1853) • William M. Meredith (1850 - 1850) • Thomas Ewing (1850 - 1850) |
| Secretary of the Interior Alexander H. H. Stuart (1850 - 1853) • Thomas M. T. McKennan (1850 - 1850) |
| Attorney General John J. Crittenden (1850 - 1853) • Reverdy Johnson (1850 - 1850) |
| Secretary of the Navy William B. Preston (1850 - 1850) • William A. Graham (1850 - 1852) • John P. Kennedy (1852 - 1853) |
Consulting Editor: Michael F. Holt
Professor Holt is the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia. His writings include:
The Civil War and Reconstruction (Co-authored with Jean H. Baker and David Herbert Donald, W.W. Norton, 2001)
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Political Parties and American Political Development from the age of Jackson to the age of Lincoln (Louisiana State University Press, 1992)
Presidential SpeechesBelow are selections from the Miller Center's Millard Fillmore speech collection. To view the Miller Center's other speeches by Millard Fillmore or by another President, please click the link below. |
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Miller Center Scholarship and SpeakersThe Miller Center of Public Affairs is a national nonpartisan center to research, reflect, and report on American government, with special attention to the central role and history of the presidency. Below is a selection of Miller Center resources on Millard Fillmore.
Click here to learn more about the Center’s National Commission on the Vice Presidency and its relationship to Fillmore. |
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