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Learn more about Millard Fillmore’s spouse, Abigail Powers Fillmore.The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Copyright 2009 by the White House Historical Association.

The Presidential biographies on are from “The Presidents of the United States of America,” by Michael Beschloss and Hugh Sidey. Throughout the Civil War he opposed President Lincoln and during Reconstruction supported President Johnson. Within a few years it was apparent that although the Compromise had been intended to settle the slavery controversy, it served rather as an uneasy sectional truce.Īs the Whig Party disintegrated in the 1850’s, Fillmore refused to join the Republican Party but, instead, in 1856 accepted the nomination for President of the Know Nothing, or American, Party. They helped deprive him of the Presidential nomination in 1852. Some of the more militant northern Whigs remained irreconcilable, refusing to forgive Fillmore for having signed the Fugitive Slave Act. Webster wrote, “I can now sleep of nights.” Abolish the slave trade in the District of Columbia.Įach measure obtained a majority, and by September 20, President Fillmore had signed them into law. Place Federal officers at the disposal of slaveholders seeking fugitives.ĥ. Grant territorial status to New Mexico.Ĥ. Settle the Texas boundary and compensate her.ģ. Breaking up Clay’s single legislative package, Douglas presented five separate bills to the Senate:Ģ. This helped influence a critical number of northern Whigs in Congress away from their insistence upon the Wilmot Proviso–the stipulation that all land gained by the Mexican War must be closed to slavery.ĭouglas’s effective strategy in Congress combined with Fillmore’s pressure from the White House to give impetus to the Compromise movement. On August 6, 1850, he sent a message to Congress recommending that Texas be paid to abandon her claims to part of New Mexico.

At this critical juncture, President Fillmore announced in favor of the Compromise. Taylor’s Cabinet resigned and President Fillmore at once appointed Daniel Webster to be Secretary of State, thus proclaiming his alliance with the moderate Whigs who favored the Compromise.Ī bill to admit California still aroused all the violent arguments for and against the extension of slavery, without any progress toward settling the major issues.Ĭlay, exhausted, left Washington to recuperate, throwing leadership upon Senator Stephen A. Thus the sudden accession of Fillmore to the Presidency in July 1850 brought an abrupt political shift in the administration. He made no public comment on the merits of the compromise proposals, but a few days before President Taylor’s death, he intimated to him that if there should be a tie vote on Henry Clay’s bill, he would vote in favor of it. In 1848, while Comptroller of New York, he was elected Vice President.įillmore presided over the Senate during the months of nerve-wracking debates over the Compromise of 1850. As an associate of the Whig politician Thurlow Weed, Fillmore held state office and for eight years was a member of the House of Representatives. In 1823 he was admitted to the bar seven years later he moved his law practice to Buffalo. He attended one-room schools, and fell in love with the redheaded teacher, Abigail Powers, who later became his wife. He worked on his father’s farm, and at 15 was apprenticed to a cloth dresser. In his rise from a log cabin to wealth and the White House, Millard Fillmore demonstrated that through methodical industry and some competence an uninspiring man could make the American dream come true.īorn in the Finger Lakes country of New York in 1800, Fillmore as a youth endured the privations of frontier life. Millard Fillmore, a member of the Whig party, was the 13th President of the United States (1850-1853) and the last President not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties.

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