Millard Fillmore, our 13th President of the United States seems to remain an obscurity for most of us. Next time you are at a party take a survey as to "Who was Millard Fillmore" and you will see what I mean.
Fillmore was a native New Yorker who had no formal education and succeeded to the Presidency when Zachary Taylor died in office.
Points of interest:
- The Presidential salary during his term was $25,000 per year.
- Fillmore was one of 5 presidents who were never inaugurated.
- He refused an honorary degree from Oxford University because he felt he had "neither literary nor scientific attainment."
- His Secretary of the Navy was John Kennedy.
Notable Quotes from Millard Fillmore:
"An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory."
"Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness."
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