The 13th President of The United States, Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore: In his inauguration from a log cabin to wealth in the White House, Millard Fillmore demonstrated that through methodical industry and a little competition, a man without inspiracióin could make the American dream a reality. Born in County Finger Lakes, New York, in 1800. Fillmore as a youth he endured the hardships of life on the border. He worked on his father's farm, and at 15 was apprenticed to a tailor. He attended schools in one room, and peliroja teacher, Abigail Powers, who later was his wife fell in love. In 1823 he was accepted into the bar; seven years later he moved his law practice to Buffalo. As associate Thurlow Weed, the political Whig, Fillmore held office for eight years and was a member of the House of Representatives. In 1848, while he was Comptroller of New York, he was elected Vice President. Fillmore presided over the Senate during the months of discussions wrecker nerves on the Compromise of 1850. He made no public comment on the merits of the proposals of the commitment, but a few days before the death of President Taylor, approached him and told him that if there was a tie vote on the bill of Henry Clay, he would vote in favor of it.

Thus the sudden accession of Fillmore to the presidency in July 1850 brought an abrupt political turnover in administration. Taylor's Cabinet resigned and President Fillmore at once appointed Daniel Webster to be his Secretary of State, thus proclaiming his alliance with the moderate Whigs who favored the Compromise. A bill to admit California was still upset about all the violent arguments for and against the expansion of slavery, to place the main issues without any progress. Clay was exhausted from Washington to recuperate, leaving in the direction Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. Review board, President Fillmore was proclaimed in favor of Commitment. On August 6, 1850, he sent a message to Congress recommending that Texas be compensated for abandoning their claims on the part of New Mexico. This helped influence a critical number of northern Whigs in Congress away from their insistence upon the Wilmot Proviso - the stipulation that all land won by the Mexican War must accept slavery.

Douglas effective strategy in Congress combined with Fillmore pressure from the White House to give impetus to the movement of the Undertaking. Breaking Clay single legislative package, Douglas presented five separate bills to the Senate; To admit California as a free state; Agreeing limit Texas and compensate; Cederle the territorial status to New Mexico; Federal officials put at the disposal of slaveholders seeking fugitives; Abolish the slave trade in the District of Columbia.Cada measure won a majority and before September 20, President Fillmore had signed the law. Webster wrote, "now pued sleep at night." Some of the more militant northern Whigs remained irreconcilable, refusing to forgive Fillmore signed the Fugitive Slave Act. They helped remove the presidential nomination in 1852. Within a few years it was clear that although the commitment had been intended to settle the controversy of slavery, served as difficult sectional truce. As the Whig party disintegrated in the 1850's, Fillmore refused to join the Republican Party, but in 1856 accepted his nomination for president by the American Party. Through the Civil War he opposed President Lincoln and during Reconstruction supported President Johnson. He died and 1874.