Born: January 7, 1800, Locke Township (now Summerhill), New York... Like several other presidents, Millard Fillmore was born in a log cabin. He was an uninspiring individual with no particular ...

A powerful congressman from New York, Millard Fillmore was Zachary Taylor’s vice president and ascended to the presidency upon Taylor’s death. Challenges: Millard Fillmore inherited the uncompleted ...

President Millard Fillmore signs the first Railroad Land ... to control aspects of the railroad industry, the first in America to be subject to regulation by a federal government agency.

Once again, while commemorating Millard Fillmore’s birth on Jan. 7, 1800, the weather at his resting place was bone-chilling, as a small crowd gathered last Friday to honor’s the nation’s 13th ...

Millard Fillmore, the American Party candidate in 1856, previously served as 13th president of the United States (1850-53). Before 1855, the Know-Nothings had no centralized organization.