FILLMORE, Millard (1800-1874)
Whig of New York 
32nd congressional district
Served in House 1833-1835 , 1837-1843
Subsequently served as President ( 1849-1853 )
Biography
A Representative from New York, Vice President and 13th President of the United States; born in Locke Township (now Summerhill), Cayuga County, N.Y., January 7, 1800; reared on a farm; largely self-taught; apprenticed to a clothier; taught school in Buffalo while studying law; admitted to the bar in 1823 and commenced practice in East Aurora, N.Y.; moved to Buffalo, N.Y., in 1830; member, State assembly 1829-1831; elected as an Anti-Mason to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1843); chair, Committee on Ways and Means (Twenty-seventh Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1842; unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor in 1844; State comptroller 1847-1849; elected Vice President of the United States on the Whig ticket headed by Zachary Taylor in 1848, and was inaugurated March 4, 1849; became President upon the death of President Taylor and served from July 10, 1850, to March 3, 1853; unsuccessful candidate for the Whig nomination for president in 1852; unsuccessful candidate for president on the National American ticket in 1856; commanded a corps of home guards during the Civil War; traveled extensively; died in Buffalo, N.Y., March 8, 1874; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
