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Millard
Fillmore- 13th President
Party: Whig
Term: July 9, 1850 - March 3, 1853
Age at Inauguration: 50
Life Span: Jan 7, 1800 - March 8, 1874 [74]
Spouse: Abigail Powers - Age at Marriage:
26
Spouse: Caroline McIntosh - Age at Marriage: 58
Vice President: None |
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- Millard Fillmore was the second president
to succeed to the office through he death of the incumbent
Vice President Millard Fillmore
- He would serve as the last Whig president
- He sought re-election for a full term
in 1852, but was denied the nomination in favor of General Winfield
Scott
- In 1956 he was the unsuccessful Know
Nothing Party candidate and retired from politics shortly thereafter
- When the latest of modern inventions,
a cooking stove, arrived at the White House no one was sure how
to use it
- Fillmore went to the patent office,
read the directions, and convey them to the cook
- Millard Fillmore became the first
and only president to marry his schoolteacher - Abigail Powers
- After becoming a widow, he remarried
at age 58
- He was the first president who had
a stepmother
- The president is wrongly credited
with having the first bathtub at the White House
- Fillmore was the first of two presidents
who was an indentured servant - the textile industry - also see
Andrew Johnson
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