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Millard Fillmore

The Thirteenth President • 1850-1853

Millard Fillmore

“Forgotten Leader”


Biographical Facts

Birth: Locke, Cayuga County, New York, January 7, 1800

Ancestry: English

Father: Nathaniel Fillmore
Birth: Bennington, Vermont, April 19, 1771
Death: March 28, 1863
Occupation: Farmer

Mother: Phoebe Millard Fillmore
Birth: Pittsfield, Mass., 1780
Death: May 2, 1831

Brothers: Cyrus Filmore (1801-unknown); Almon Hopkins Fillmore (1806-1830); Calvin Turner Taylor (1810-unknown); Darius Ingraham Fillmore (1814-1837); Charles DeWitt Fillmore (1817-1854)

Sisters: Olive Armstrong Fillmore (1797-unknown); Julia Fillmore (1812-unknown); Phoebe Maria Fillmore (1819-1843)

Marriage (first): Albany, New York, February 5, 1826
Wife: Abigail Powers Fillmore
Birth: Stillwater, New York, March 13, 1798
Death: Washington, D.C., March 30, 1853
Children: Millard Powers Fillmore (1828-1889); Mary Abigail Fillmore (1832-1854)

Marriage (second): Albany, New York, February 10, 1858
Wife: Caroline Carmichael McIntosh Fillmore
Birth: Morristown, New Jersey, October 21, 1813
Death: Buffalo, New York, August 11, 1881

Religious Affiliation: Unitarian

Education: Public Schools; Studied law in Cayuga County and Buffalo, New York

Occupation Before Presidency: Lawyer

Prepresidential Offices: Member of New York State Legislature; United States Congressman; United States Vice President

Inauguration Age: 50

Death: Buffalo, New York, March 8, 1874

Place of Burial: Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York



 
First Administration

Inauguration: July 10, 1850; House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

Secretary of State: Daniel Webster; Edward Everett (from November 6, 1852)

Secretary of the Treasury: Thomas Corwin

Secretary of War: Charles M. Conrad

Attorney General: John J. Crittenden

Postmaster General: Nathan K. Hall; Samuel D. Hubbard (from September 14, 1852)

Secretary of the Navy: William A. Graham; John P. Kennedy (from July 26, 1852)

Secretary of the Interior: Thomas M. T. McKennan; Alexander H.H. Stuart (from September 16, 1850)

Supreme Court Appointment: Benjamin R. Curtis (1851)

Congress #31 (Decmeber 3, 1849-March 3, 1851):
Senate: 35 Democrats; 25 Whigs; 2 Free-Soilers
House: 112 Democrats; 109 Whigs; 9 Others

Congress #32 (December 1, 1851-March 3, 1853):
Senate: 36 Democrats; 23 Whigs; 3 Free-Soilers
House: 140 Democrats; 88 Whigs; 5 Others

State Admitted: California (1850)



 
 

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