Hi everybody. Today! Bye, mommy! It's going to talk about Miller. Fillmore!

Thank you, Noah, for introducing Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States.

Millard Fillmore was the first of our presidents born in the 1800s and the second president born in New York.

His experience growing up in New York as well as serving as an assembly man and representative of New York was not insignificant.

When the previous president, Zachary Taylor from Virginia, was looking for a running

mate in the election of 1848, he was very interested in finding a suitable choice from a northern

state so that the pair could appeal to the increasingly fractured north and south voters.

As vice president, Millard Fillmore played a big role. The most important job of the Vice President at that time was to break a voting tie in the Senate.

With the North and South at the breaking point, Henry Clay created a compromise called the Compromise of

1850 to settle the dispute over slavery and satisfy the northerners who wanted to end slavery

and the southerners who wanted to keep slavery. President Zachary Taylor made it very clear

that he would not support the compromise of 1850.

In a shocking move, his vice president, Millard Fillmore, said that he would support the compromise in an effort to avoid war if a Senate vote resulted in a tie.

In the 16 months that Taylor was president, the compromise of

1850 was blocked, but he passed away in July of 1850. Miller Philmore was sworn in as president

to complete the four-year term of Zachary Taylor. He quickly asked for all of the members of

Zachary Taylor's cabinet to step down, and they did. He replaced them with supporters that

wanted to pass the compromise of 1850. With President Fillmore in charge, the compromise of 1850

passed without much resistance.

In order to understand Miller Fillmore's legacy, it is very important to understand the compromise

of 1850 because it was the most important thing that happened in his two and a half years as president.

There were lots of great things happening in those years,

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