Millard Fillmore

POLITICAL PARTIES
Anti-Masonic (thru 1832)
Whig (1832-56)
American (1856-80)

RELIGION
Unitarian

EDUCATION
New Hope Academy

VITALS
5 ft 9 in / 174 lbs

CAREER
1819 Law clerk, Judge Walter Wood, Montville, New York
1820-23 School teacher, East Aurora, New York
1823-48 Practiced law in East Aurora and Buffalo, New York
1829-31 Member, New York State Assembly
1833-35 U.S. Representatives, New York
1837-45 U.S. Representatives, New York
1846 Founder, Chancellor, University of Buffalo
1848-49 Comptroller of New York
1849-50 U.S. Vice President (Taylor)

ADMINISTRATION
Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT
Benjamin R. Curtis

NEW STATES
California (1850)

FIRST LADY
Abigail Powers (1850-53)

POST-PRESIDENCY
1856 Know Nothing/American Party nominee for president
1858 Married Carroline Carmichael McIntosh (1813-81)
1861 Commander, Union Continentals

“An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.”
Speech, Buffalo, New York, September 13, 1844

Portrait of Millard Fillmore by George P.A. Healy, 1957.