Millard Fillmore was born on 7 January 1800 in Summerhill. The 13th President of the United States, Fillmore was a New York lawyer and Whig politician who served as Zachary Taylor's vice president and took office when Taylor died in July 1850. He supported the Compromise of 1850, a package of laws meant to settle disputes over slavery in the new territories, and signed the Fugitive Slave Act, which was bitterly opposed in the North and split his party. In foreign affairs he sent Commodore Matthew Perry on the expedition that opened Japan to Western trade. He failed to win the Whig nomination in 1852 and ran again in 1856 for the nativist American Party, the Know Nothings, without success.
Before and after
- c. 1800sRise of nationalism
- 18th centuryLate modern period
- 1800Voltaic pile
- from 1800 to 1863Underground Railroad
- 7 January 1800Birth of Millard Fillmore
- 18 January 1800Founding of Bank of France
- from 20 April 1800 to 4 June 1800Siege of Genoa
- 24 April 1800Founding of Library of Congress
- 1 November 1800Construction of White House
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