QUICK FACTS
Nickname: American Louis Philippe
Year in office: 1850–1853
Political party: Whig
Birthday: January 7, 1800
Official presidential portrait of Millard Fillmore
by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1857
Millard Fillmore, American candidate for president of the United States, c1856 (Library of Congress)
Millard Fillmore was not selected as the Whig candidate in the 1852 election. But, he returned as a candidate in 1856, as the American (Know-Nothing) Party candidate.
Millard Fillmore was not selected as the Whig candidate in 1852. But, in 1856, he ran as the nominee for the newly-formed Know-Nothing Party. Fillmore won 22% of the popular vote, but just one state. The election went to James Buchanan.
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BOOKS
Davis, Kenneth C., and Pedro Martin. Don’t Know Much about the Presidents. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.
DeGregorio, William A., and Aaron Jaffe. The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents. Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, Inc., 2017.
Kane, Joseph Nathan, and Janet Podell. Facts about the Presidents: A Compilation of Biographical and Historical Information. New York: H.W. Wilson, 2009.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, britannica.com
Library of Congress, loc.gov
Miller Center, University of Virginia, millercenter.org/the-presidency
The White House, whitehouse.gov
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