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Millard Fillmore

2013-12-19T03:50:35Z

StefonP:

{{President
|image=Millard fillmore.jpg
|seq=13
|term_start=July 9, 1850
|term_end=March 4, 1853<ref>http://www.trivia-library.com/a/13th-us-president-millard-fillmore.htm</ref>
|party= Whig Party
|vp=None
|previous=Zachary Taylor
|next=Franklin Pierce
|office2=vice
|seq2=12
|term_start2=March 4, 1849
|term_end2=July 9, 1850
|party2=
|pres2= Zachary Taylor
|previous2=George M. Dallas
|next2=William King
|birth_date=January 7, 1800
|birth_place=Summerhill, New York
|death_date=March 8, 1874
|death_place=Buffalo, New York
|spouse=Abigail Powers Fillmore
|spouse2=Caroline Carmichael McIntosh Fillmore
|religion=[[Unitarian]]
}}

'''Millard Fillmore''' became the 13th [[President of the United States of America]] upon the unexpected death due to illness of [[President]] [[Zachary Taylor]] in 1850. He served as the president from 1850-1853<ref>http://www.trivia-library.com/a/13th-us-president-millard-fillmore.htm</ref>.
Fillmore admitted [[California]] as a state as part of the Compromise of 1850, sent [[Commodore Perry]] to [[Japan]], and was president during the [[Gold Rush]] to California. Fillmore was the last [[Whig]] to hold the presidency, as the Whig Party did not even nominate him for reelection in the [[United States presidential election, 1852|1852 Presidential election]] and he failed in his presidential candidacy in the [[United States presidential election, 1856|1856 Presidential election]] as the nominee of both the [[Know nothing party|Know Nothing (American) Party]] and the Whig Party.

The main event in his presidency was the [[Compromise of 1850]], which appeased the slave states and held off [[American Civil War|civil war]] for a few more years.

On July 10, 1850, Fillmore declared, "I dare not shrink; and I rely upon Him who holds in His hands the destinies of nations to endow me with the requisite strength for the task." Fillmore also stated in his Annual Message of 1852, "We owe these blessings, under Heaven, to the Constitution and Government ... bequeathed to us by our fathers, and which it is our sacred duty to transmit ... to our children."

He died February 1874 in Bufalo, New York. <ref> [[Encyclopedia of Presidents Millard Fillmore]] by Jane Clark Casey, Children's Press, 1988. </ref>
==Mencken's "Bathtub hoax"==

In 1917, the acerbic liberal journalist [[H. L. Mencken]] published a newspaper article that claimed to be a history of the bathtub. Among other things, it stated that initially there was widespread public opposition to bathtubs; that Millard Fillmore ordered the first bathtub installed in the White House; and that his support of the invention helped to popularize it. The article was completely false from beginning to end, but was widely believed and the "fact" about Fillmore made its way into many reference books.

==See also==
*[[Mallard Fillmore]], conservative-themed newspaper comic strip by Bruce Tinsley named for this President

==Notes & References==

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Talk:Millard Fillmore

2013-12-19T03:49:53Z

StefonP: Created page with "== Changes == I changed some of the wording in the introduction to make it more straight forward, for example, putting the mention of his lack of presidential nomination in 1852..."

== Changes ==

I changed some of the wording in the introduction to make it more straight forward, for example, putting the mention of his lack of presidential nomination in 1852 before the mention of his failure in the 1856 election. I also removed the section about how the U.S. would have been if his policies were different from the second introductory paragraph, as it was mostly unsourced speculation(If I am wrong and there actually was a source to that, please notify me and insert that text back into the articule). I think this article badly needs some attention, and I'm off to do some research for it. --[[User:StefonP|StefonP]] 22:49, 18 December 2013 (EST)

User talk:StefonP

2013-12-19T00:30:06Z

StefonP:

I was never very good at Geography, but since Illinois isn't in the time zone selection, I picked Indiana instead because it seemed close.
--[[User:StefonP|StefonP]] 19:30, 18 December 2013 (EST)

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2013-12-19T00:29:43Z

StefonP: Created page with "I was never very good at Geography, but since Illinois isn't in the time zone selection, I picked Indiana instead because it seemed close."

I was never very good at Geography, but since Illinois isn't in the time zone selection, I picked Indiana instead because it seemed close.

User:StefonP

2013-12-19T00:25:44Z

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Hello, I am Stefon P. I am a die hard Republican who's saddened he lives in Illinois, where his presidential vote doesn't matter (darn democratic electoral college!). I look forward to contributing positively on this wiki come Christmas Break, as I don't often have time on my hands but will have lots of time then.

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