Millard Fillmore ~ January 7, 1800 - March 8, 1874

 13th President, 1850 - 1853

This is the house Fillmore helped build and lived in with Abigial from 1826-1830. Location: 24 Shearer Ave, East Aurora, New York.
We found the Millard Fillmore Presidential Library at 15617 Waterloo in Cleveland, Ohio. It was a most unique "Presidential Library" and we enjoyed our time there very much 😉
Souvenirs are available 😁
Vice Presidential portrait, from a 2023 exhibit at the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
In Buffalo, New York, Abraham Lincoln attended church with Fillmore in 1861.
Outside of Buffalo City Hall stands a statue of Fillmore.
Millard and his second wife, Caroline, lived in a large house on Niagara Square in Buffalo after his presidency. The house later became Hotel Fillmore, and then Castle Inn. The Inn was demolished in order to build the Statler Hotel, which still stands today as a mixed-use building.
Fillmore is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York.

Some "firsts" for Fillmore include being the first president born in the 1800s, the first president to establish a permanent White House library and the first to install a kitchen stove in the White House. He is one of eight vice presidents to inherit the presidency due to the death of the then president.

Fillmore signed the Fugitive Slave Act and supported the Compromise of 1850, which cost him his party's nomination for a second term. He was the last Whig president.

His first wife, Abigail, died in 1853 and his daughter in 1854. He was happily married to his second wife, Caroline, until his death in 1874. They played a major philanthropic role in Buffalo and supported many organizations that still exist today.

Millard had one surviving child, Millard Powers Fillmore, who inherited his father's papers (after a battle with his step-mother, Caroline). Millard Powers stipulated in his will that all family letters and correspondence were to be destroyed upon his death. He should have done it in his lifetime because the papers were not destroyed and historians still study them today 😏

"May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not." 


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