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Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, and was the last president to have been a member of the Whig Party while in office.
The American Party, formerly the Native American Party, was the vehicle of the Know Nothing movement. The convention resulted in the nomination of former President Millard Fillmore from New York for president and former Ambassador Andrew Jackson Donelson from Tennessee for vice president.
Millard Fillmore: Party Democratic: ... nominated a ticket led by former Whig President Millard Fillmore. Domestic political turmoil was a major factor in the ...
Attended by a rump group of Whigs who had not yet left the declining party, the 1856 convention was the last presidential nominating convention held by the Whig Party. The convention nominated a ticket consisting of former president Millard Fillmore and former ambassador Andrew J. Donelson ; both had previously been nominated by the 1856 ...
The presidency of Millard Fillmore began on July 9, 1850, when Millard Fillmore became the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, and ended on March 4, 1853. Fillmore had been Vice President of the United States for 1 year, 4 months prior to succeeding the presidency.
After Webster turned down the vice presidential candidacy, Millard Fillmore received the party's vice-presidential nomination on the second ballot after defeating Abbott Lawrence, a Massachusetts politician whose mild opposition to slavery led him to be dubbed a "Cotton Whig". An attempt was made to make both nominations unanimous, but it was ...
President Millard Fillmore's political career began as an Anti-Masonic member of the New York State Assembly in 1829. Solomon Southwick, candidate for Governor of New York (1828) Millard Fillmore, New York State Assembly (1829–1831) William H. Seward, New York State Senate (1831–1834) Lebbeus Egerton, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont (1831 ...
It nominated the Whig Party's candidates for president and vice president in the 1848 election. The convention selected General Zachary Taylor of Louisiana for president and former Representative Millard Fillmore of New York for vice president.