Millard Fillmore
13th President of the United States
Years: 1800 - 1874
Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) is the 13th President of the United States (1850–1853) and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president.
As Zachary Taylor's Vice President, he assumes the presidency after Taylor's death.
He is the only president to have been born in a centennial year.
Fillmore opposes the proposal to keep slavery out of the territories annexed during the Mexican–American War in order to appease the South and so supports the Compromise of 1850, which he signs, including the Fugitive Slave Act ("Bloodhound Law") which is part of the compromise.
On the foreign policy front, he furthers the rising trade with Japan and clashes with the French over Napoleon III's attempt to annex Hawaii and with the French and the British over the attempt of Narciso López to invade Cuba.
After his presidency, he joins the Know-Nothing movement; throughout the Civil War, he opposes President Abraham Lincoln and during Reconstruction supports President Andrew Johnson.
He is consistently included in the bottom 10 of historical rankings of Presidents of the United States.
Fillmore co-founds the University at Buffalo and helps found the Buffalo Historical Society, and Buffalo General Hospital.
