Millard+Fillmore


 * Millard Fillmore**


 * 13th President of the United States**

Vice President: None Party: Whig Term: 1850-1853
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Millard Fillmore was President from 1850 to 1853 (two years, 236 days).

He was born January 7, 1800, Cayuga County, New York. He was 5 feet 9 inches tall.

Fillmore's life growing up was hard. He had eight brothers and sisters. They lived in a small log cabin. When he grew up he married Abigail Fillmore and had two children. Before Millard was President he was a farmer and then Vice President.

He made California the 31st state. Millard Fillmore abolished slave trade in the District of Columbia. He became President when Zachary Taylor died. The coinage of the three-cent stamp, the smallest stamp in weight and the thickest ever issued, begins to facilitate postal payments.

Millard died March 8, 1874, Buffalo, New York. Many people called him the forgotten President.