Sunday, October 19, 2008

POTUS 13 - President Millard Fillmore


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Unlike elevators, they don't skip the number 13 for Presidents. Not that President Fillmore experienced bad luck. . .or much good luck either. . .

When President Zachary Taylor konked out early in his second year in office, Millard Fillmore finished his term. As President, he signed the Compromise Measure of 1850, which included the Fugitive Slave Act. The Compromise Measure may have helped stave off the Civil War for ten years. However, it was very unpopular with both factions, and The President was not nominated by his party for another term.
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