NICKNAME
The American Louis Phillippe
Last of the Whigs
BIRTH
Millard Fillmore was born on January 7, 1800
MOTHER
Phoebe Millard
FATHER
Nathaniel Fillmore
SISTERS
Olive Armstrong, Julia and Phoebe Maria
BROTHERS
Cyrus, Almon HOpkins, Calvin Turner, Darius Ingraham,
and charles Dewitt
MARRIAGE
First Wife: Aligail Powers on February 1826
Second Wife: Caroline Carmichael Mcintosh on February 10, 1858
CHILDREN
Millard Powers and Mary Abigail
EDUCATION
Attended public schools
Studied law in Cayuga County and Buffalo, N.Y.
RELIGION
Unitarian
PRE-PRESIDENCY PROFESSION
Lawyer
MILITARY SERVICE
Served as major in the Union Continentals (Home guard of Buffalo)
during the Civil War
POLITICAL LIFE
New York assemblyman (1829-1831)
US Representative (1833-1835) and (1837-1843)
New York state comptroller (1848-1849)
Vice President (1849-1850)
US President one term (July 9, 1850-March 4, 1853)
POLITICAL PARTY
Whig
INAUGURATION
Inaugurated on July 10, 1850 at the age of 50. He did not give an inaugural address
SECRETARY OF STATE
Daniel Webster (1850-1852)
Edward Everett (1852-1853)
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
Thomas Corwin (1850-1853)
SECRETARY OF WAR
Charles M. Conrad (1850-1853)
ATTORNEY GENERAL
John J Crittenden (1850-1853)
POSTMASTER GENERAL
Nathan K. Hall (1850-1852)
Samual D. Hubbard (1852-1853)
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
William A. Graham (1850-1852)
John P. Kennedy (1852-1853)
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
Thomas M. T. McKennan (1850, August)
Alexander H.H. Stuart (1850-1853)
PRESIDENCY
One term (July 9, 1850-March 4, 1853)
VICE PRESIDENT
None
FIRST LADY
Abigail Fillmore (1850-1854)
Facts About Abigail Fillmore
Biography of Abigail Fillmore
SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Benjamin R. Curtis (1851)
STATES ADMITTED TO UNION
California (1850)
POST PRESIDENCY LIFE
Politician; Chancelor of the University of Buffalo
DEATH
March 8, 1874 in Buffalo N.Y. at the age of
BURIAL PLACE
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
LANDMARKS
Fillmore Glen State Park, Moravia, N.Y. (reconstructed birthplace)
The Fillmore House, East Aurora, N.Y.
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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