Who is 13th president

John Adams 2nd President of the United States. Visited ca. June , Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States. Andrew Jackson 7th President of the United States. Visited in November of Polk 11th President of the United States.

Millard Fillmore 13th President of the United States. Visited in March Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States. Benjamin Harrison 23rd President of the United States. Visited Mount Vernon in May of Woodrow Wilson 28th President of the United States. Calvin Coolidge 30th President of the United States. Visited Mount Vernon twice during his administration.

Truman 33rd President of the United States. Visited Mount Vernon in Eisenhower 34th President of the United States. Johnson 36th President of the United States. Gerald Ford 38th President of the United States.

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First Annual Message. Overview Born into desperate poverty at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Millard Fillmore climbed to the highest office in the land—and inherited a nation breaking into fragments over the question of slavery. Fast Facts Birth Date January 7, Death Date March 8, Birth Place Summerhill, New York. Education Six months of grade school; read law in Nickname "The American Louis Philippe".

Children Millard Powers — , Mary Abigail He served in the United States House of Representatives from to In , he ran for governor and suffered defeat for the first time in his life. Fillmore, opposed to slavery but seeking a middle ground between Northern abolitionists and Southern secessionists, strongly supported the measure.

Passed piecemeal in September , the compromise admitted California as a free State; established the territories of Utah and New Mexico, giving residents the right to vote on whether slavery would be legal or not. It also settled a bitter boundary dispute between Texas and New Mexico, abolished the slave trade but not slavery in the District of Columbia, and created a strong Federal fugitive slave law. Both slaveholders and abolitionists had objections to the compromise.

Secessionists in the South threatened insurrection, while Northerners vowed to ignore the Fugitive Slave Law. The compromise helped postpone for 10 years but did not avert the Civil War. The Millard Fillmore House features artwork and musical instruments of his daughter. The remainder of his administration was prosperous. Federal land grants encouraged the construction of new railroads. Settlement continued to move across the prairies.