Millard Fillmore was the president of the United States between 1850-1853. Born in the Finger Lakes county of New York in 1800, Fillmore as a youth endured the hardships frontier life and was a hard worker. He worked on his father's farm, and at 15 was apprenticed to a cloth dresser. He attended one-room schools and later moved his law practice to buffalo as an associate of the Whig party.
During his three-year term Millard Fillmore finally settled the Compromise of 1850, which was the annexation of Texas to the United States and the gain of new territory by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Hostility began between North and South concerning the question of weather or not Texas should be a slave state or a free state. Fillmore was against slavery and didn't want to bring in another slave state into the union. …
