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American Presidents

No one was more surprised than Millard Fillmore when the Whig Party chose him to be Zachary Taylor’s running mate in the 1848 election.

The political partnership of Taylor and Fillmore worked for the President but not the VP.

Upon the untimely death of Taylor in 1850, Fillmore became the 13th President of the United States — and found himself in an extremely precarious historical moment.

The Compromise of 1850 was a desperate attempt to stave off civil war over the question of how slavery would be handled in America’s newly acquired territory. 

Fillmore hated The Fugitive Slave Act, but signed it anyway, fearing the shattering of the Union if he didn’t.

To get the Compromise of 1850 passed, Fillmore had alienated his own Whig Party, killing any chance he had of winning their presidential nomination in 1852.

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Is Millard Fillmore, the 13th President of the United States, the least significant of all the commanders in chief? Or the most underestimated? Jared Cohen, author of Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America, has the answer.

Millard Fillmore: The Last Whig President

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