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Millard Fillmore was born on January 7th, 1800 to Nathaniel and Phoebe Fillmore. He was born in Locke, New York which is now named Summerhill, New York. -
Millard Fillmore was uneducated until he went to New Hope Academy when he was 19. He ended up marrying his teacher that taught him there. -
Millard Fillmore worked as a school teacher for some time while courting with Abigail. He was the 2nd president to be a school teacher. -
Fillmore joined a law practice in 1823, and created his own in 1830 with his friend. -
Millard Fillmore fell in love with a beautiful lady at his school. What was unusual about this marriage is that he married his teacher. -
Millard Fillmore joined the Anti-Masonic party which was originally a religious movement against the Freemasonry party, and eventually became a political party. -
Millard and Abigail had a child in Aurora New York two years after they had got married. -
The Whigs promoted protective tariffs, federal funding for internal improvements, and other measures that strengthened the central government. Fillmore joined the party and became Zachary Taylor's vice president and when he died Fillmore became the president. -
Millard and Abigail had a second child almost exactly 4 years after Millard Jr. was born. Mary was born in Buffalo. -
Millard Fillmore and Zachary Taylor were voted into be president and vice president as the Whig party representatives. -
Antonio Meucci invents the first model of the telephone which does not work perfect, but it give the idea to Alexander Graham Bell to invent a good one two years after Fillmore's death. -
In Albany New York Millard Fillmore married Caroline Carmichael McIntosh. This was when he was 58 and after his presidency. -
He was inaugurated the day after Zachary Taylor died in his bed after being sick for a while. Fillmore was the 2nd accidental president while John Tyler was the first. -
After Zachary Taylor's death Fillmore was made the president as a part of the Whig political party. -
The Compromise of 1850 was the most important law that was passed in Fillmore's presidency. It made multiple territories states and added some new territories, but the big thing was the Fugitive Slave bill. -
The Fugitive Slave Bill was a part of the Compromise, but was passed nine days later. It stated all runaway slaves in the North could be chased by Southern plantation owners. They could even have the government help them catch the slaves. This was meant to prevent the civil war. -
Fillmore makes Brigham Young the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, governor of the Utah Territory. Young leads thousands of members to settle in the territory, -
Millard Fillmore and the government created a commercial treaty with El Salvador on this day. -
Gold is discovered in a river making a new place to search for the gold miners from the 49 gold rush in California. -
In 1853 Millard Fillmore sent Commodore Matthew Perry to Japan to open trade with them. The effects weren't felt until after Fillmore's presidency, but eventually Japanese ports were opened to US ships, and that then led to a trade agreement. -
Just before Fillmore leaves office to make way for Franklin Pierce congress authorizes the surveying for the transcontinental railroad. -
Fillmore leaves office after finishing Zachary Taylor's term and Franklin Pierce is elected in his place. -
After leaving the presidency he went back to his home in Buffalo New York. -
Abigail Powers, Fillmore's wife, died on March 30th 1853 of pneumonia and was buried in Buffalo, New York. -
The Know Nothing party wanted to place restrictions on immigration, the exclusion of the foreign-born from voting or holding public office in the United States, and for a 21-year residency requirement for citizenship. Fillmore joined this after the Whig party fell apart after his presidency. -
Fillmore joined his last political party, the democrats and did not switch parties after this. Although he was the last president not to be affiliated with the democrat or republican parties he joined the democrats after his previous parties fell apart. -
While the civil war was going on Fillmore supported the Union, and helped leaders from both sides trying to stop the war. -
Millard Fillmore's life of trying to prevent the Civil war was over when he had a stroke at home and died. -
Fillmore was buried next to his first wife in forest lawn cemetery in Buffalo, NY. -
Fillmore's 2nd wife dies in Buffalo, New York less than a decade after Fillmore dies.