Millard Fillmore - biography.

Millard Fillmore - biography. 13th president of the United States Birth January 7, 1800 Death March 8, 1874 Home State New York Party Whig Term In Office 1850-1853 Vice President None Significant Signed a series of bills known as the Compromise of 1850, which included the Fugitive Slave Law providing for the return of escaped Acts slaves to the South. Sent Commodore Matthew C. Perry on a mission to open Japanese ports to U.S. trade. Career 1833-1835 and 1837-1843 Represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. 1846 Became the first chancellor of the University of Buffalo. 1849-1850 Vice president of the United States under Zachary Taylor. 1850-1853 President of the United States. 1856 Ran an unsuccessful campaign for president with the Know-Nothing (American) Party. Did You Know At the age of 15, Fillmore was apprenticed to a cloth maker. Fillmore's wife, Abigail, set up the first White House library. Fillmore declined an honorary degree from Oxford University, stating that 'no man should . . . accept a degree he cannot read.' Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.