| rdfs:comment | - Millard Fillmore was the thirteenth President of the United States, he started life in a log cabin in the frontier of the United States but later made good, he became a lawyer, later became Vice President and on the death of the president, he became president. Later in his life Millard Fillmore opposed Abraham Lincoln but supported the Unionists who wanted to end Slavery Congratulations! If you're reading this, Millard Fillmore is no longer unheard of to you!
- Millard Fillmore (1800–1874) was the 13th President of the United States.
- Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States of America, which is unlucky. He was also a huge fatty. Fillmore was a Whig, both politically and sexually. Nobody could ever love him, though, because he was truly massive. Huge fatty.
- Rowdyruffboy120 appeared on Youtube in December 6, 2011. His first video was Powerpuff Girls Disobey The Law And Beats Up The Police Then, he started making Millard videos. Some of the videos got over 120 views, while the others got 20 views.
- thumb|250px|Millard Fillmore.Millard Fillmore (New York, 7 januari 1800 - New York, 8 maart 1874) was de 13de President van de Verenigde Staten. Hij volgde president Zachary Taylor op na diens dood in in juli 1850, om vervolgens opgevolgd te worden door Franklin Pierce in maart 1853. Hij was de laatste president van de Whigpartij.
- Millard Fillmore is the now-deceased 13th President of the United States, featured as a character in the animated series American Dragon: Jake Long. His name was given to Jake's school in his honor. He only ever appears as a wooden statue in the season 2 episode "The Rotwood Files".
- Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800- March 8, 1874) was the 13'th president of the United States.
- Having lived in 19th century, Millard Fillmore's statue was carved with him wearing the elegant clothing of a statesman of his time period. It is composed of a vest worn over a shirt and a pair of trousers. A bow-tie compliments the outfit. Millard Fillmore also had short and slightly puffy hair.
- A fictionalized version of Millard Fillmore was portrayed by Brent Larson in the film Mercedes Ray. In the movie, Fillmore joins other U.S. Presidents to throw a massive party.
- Not many Americans know much about Millard Fillmore, except that he was once President of the United States (the 13th), and that he had a ridiculous name. Lots of jokes have been made about this. President Fillmore was not elected: He ascended from the vice presidency to the presidency upon the death of President Zachary Taylor from milk and cherries. A few months into his term he helped create the "Compromise of 1850," an agreement that was widely considered to have staved off Civil War. Ultimately though it may have done more harm than good, as many felt that it legitimized the slave states and allowed them time to build up their militaries (although it should be noted that the northern states also gained more army-building time from Fillmore's compromise, so it might have cancelled out
- Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th President of the United States (1850–1853), and the last Whig President. As Zachary Taylor's Vice President, he assumed the presidency after Taylor's death. He was a lawyer from western New York state, and an early member of the Whig Party. He served in the state legislature (1829-1831), as a U.S. Representative (1833-1835, 1837-1843), and as New York State Comptroller (1848-1849). He is consistently included in the bottom 10 of historical rankings of Presidents of the United States.
- Millard Fillmore (b. January 7, 1800–d. March 8, 1874) was the 13th President of the United States (1850–1853) and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president. As Zachary Taylor's Vice President, he assumed the presidency after Taylor's death. Fillmore opposed the proposal to keep slavery out of the territories annexed during the Mexican–American War in order to appease the South and so supported the Compromise of 1850, which he signed, including the Fugitive Slave Act ("Bloodhound Law") which was part of the compromise. On the foreign policy front, he furthered the rising trade with Japan and clashed with the French over Napoleon III's attempt to annex Hawaii and with the French and the British over the attempt of Narciso López to invade Cuba. After his presidency, h
- Mill-Fill was born in a log cabin somewhere. He wanted to hunt vampires because he was born there, but didn't succeed. Like most of us, Fillmore had a crush on his teacher. Unlike most of us, he married her. Fillmore was asked to go into politics by Thurlow Weed, although Weed just made the name up while high on his namesake cultivar of cannabis.
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| abstract | - Millard Fillmore (b. January 7, 1800–d. March 8, 1874) was the 13th President of the United States (1850–1853) and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president. As Zachary Taylor's Vice President, he assumed the presidency after Taylor's death. Fillmore opposed the proposal to keep slavery out of the territories annexed during the Mexican–American War in order to appease the South and so supported the Compromise of 1850, which he signed, including the Fugitive Slave Act ("Bloodhound Law") which was part of the compromise. On the foreign policy front, he furthered the rising trade with Japan and clashed with the French over Napoleon III's attempt to annex Hawaii and with the French and the British over the attempt of Narciso López to invade Cuba. After his presidency, he joined the Know-Nothing movement; throughout the Civil War, he opposed President Abraham Lincoln and during Reconstruction supported President Andrew Johnson. He is consistently included in the bottom 10 of historical rankings of Presidents of the United States.
- Millard Fillmore was the thirteenth President of the United States, he started life in a log cabin in the frontier of the United States but later made good, he became a lawyer, later became Vice President and on the death of the president, he became president. Later in his life Millard Fillmore opposed Abraham Lincoln but supported the Unionists who wanted to end Slavery Congratulations! If you're reading this, Millard Fillmore is no longer unheard of to you!
- Millard Fillmore (1800–1874) was the 13th President of the United States.
- Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States of America, which is unlucky. He was also a huge fatty. Fillmore was a Whig, both politically and sexually. Nobody could ever love him, though, because he was truly massive. Huge fatty.
- Not many Americans know much about Millard Fillmore, except that he was once President of the United States (the 13th), and that he had a ridiculous name. Lots of jokes have been made about this. President Fillmore was not elected: He ascended from the vice presidency to the presidency upon the death of President Zachary Taylor from milk and cherries. A few months into his term he helped create the "Compromise of 1850," an agreement that was widely considered to have staved off Civil War. Ultimately though it may have done more harm than good, as many felt that it legitimized the slave states and allowed them time to build up their militaries (although it should be noted that the northern states also gained more army-building time from Fillmore's compromise, so it might have cancelled out the south's efforts, but then again that could just mean it guaranteed the Civil War would be bigger and bloodier for both sides). After that, the only really notable thing about Fillmore is that he was the one who sent Matthew Perry (not that one) (yes, that one) to open Japan to trade with threats of violence, though Perry didn't actually arrive there until after Fillmore was out of office. So you have Millard to thank for the entirety of Rurouni Kenshin and that one episode of Samurai Champloo if nothing else. Other than that, he basically kept the seat warm in the White House while the country shuddered closer to the Civil War. While getting the Compromise of 1850 passed at all in the face of such a hostile political environment was arguably the biggest single achievement of any Whig President, Fillmore is generally regarded as a worse President than Taylor, since he actually did less in nearly three years (even including the Compromise) of office than Taylor did in just over one. He ultimately proved to be the last President from his party. After leaving office, Fillmore tried again for the Presidency in his own right in 1856 as part of the "Know Nothing" party. While he did put in a very credible performance for a third-party candidate, he split the vote and helped ensure the election of James Buchanan, under whose watch the country fractured and Civil War became inevitable. In retrospect, that was probably a case of Nice Job Breaking It, Mr. President. Travel writer Bill Bryson did at one stage bemoan the fact that Fillmore had "become so celebrated for his obscurity that he is no longer actually obscure". Fillmore was not the first president with a running water bathtub. H. L. Mencken made that up for a lark and people believed him. A one-minute biography can be found here. Examples of Millard Fillmore include:
* A commercial featuring "unheard of President's Day sales" and Millard Fillmore bath soaps.
* Yorick (yes, that Yorick) mentions "a brilliant Millard Fillmore joke" in The Skull of Truth, a novel in Bruce Coville's Magic Shop series.
* Mallard Fillmore is a political comic strip pitting a duck that is also a reporter somehow against cross-eyed Strawman Liberal version of major politicians despite that fact that he's supposed to be a local reporter. Funny to the right and unfunny to the left. Also incredibly unfunny to the center, Libertarians and to those who just don't care about politics. It doesn't really have anything to do with Millard Fillmore except for the name and total lack of amusement.
* A different (and older) Mallard Fillmore was the President of the United Species of America in the short-lived but fondly-remembered '80s animal superhero series Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew from DC Comics. When the Zoo Crew got a revival in 2007, DC apparently didn't want to do the legal tango with the above comic strip, so Mallard was replaced by an Expy: Beneduck Arnold.
* Likewise in the "shares a name" department: Fillmore.
* Fillmore Junior High School in the television series The Brady Bunch.
* The 1980s sitcom Head of the Class took place at the fictional "Millard Fillmore High School".
* In an episode of Johnny Bravo, Johnny (in a partially delirious state) speaks to a statue of Millard Filmore.
* The play Pacific Overtures is about the forcible opening of isolationist Edo era Japan to trade in the 1850s (during Fillmore's presidency) by a small fleet of America ships and the after effects. During the scene of negotiation between the Japanese and Americans, the Americans pompously announce that they are there by order of their great leader, President Millard Fillmore, then (at least in the version I saw), pause and slowly turn towards the audience for just a second in an obvious Lampshade Hanging.
* One You Don't Know Jack game included a question on Millard Fillmore, calling him the most boring subject they had available. (Apparently his last words were "The nourishment is palatable".)
* There's a book entitled Yo, Millard Fillmore! whose purpose is to provide students with a ridiculously elaborate mnemonic for listing the US Presidents in order. It works for some, but not others.
* According to Jon Stewart's America (The Book), Fillmore had a pair of magical talking cats who advised him on foreign policy.
* In Louis Sachar's book Chicken Trek, one of the main characters listens to a band called "Millard Fillmore and the Dead Presidents", whose music is implied to be terrible.
* Since Fillmore's life and presidency were so spectacularly unimpressive, it is far more interesting to present creative interpretations of history (i.e. lies) to spice up the story. George Pendle's book The Remarkable Millard Fillmore sets the record straight: did you know that Millard Fillmore was friends with Edgar Allan Poe, Alexis de Tocqueville, Davy Crockett, Samuel Morse, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Dorothea Dix? Or that he was present at the battle of the Alamo (in drag) and the assassination of Lincoln (in drag)? Or how about the time he traveled to Japan and defeated the emperor's champion sumo wrestler, discovered the source of the Nile, began the legend of Zorro, or waged a one-man campaign to rescue fugitive slaves? All this while unraveling a Freemason conspiracy with the help of space-faring American Indians.
* One episode of the 1990s series Ghostwriter featuring some Time Travel to the 1930s included a ritter brush salesman who went by the name of Millard Fillmore Smith (in retrospect, one vital detail of his character should have been immediately obvious).
* In a Mad Magazine parody "A High School Yearbook for Average Clods" (in issue #216) the school is named after Fillmore, because he "serves as an inspiration for the mediocrity that anoyone of us can achive, if we really put our questionable mind to it."
* One of the major powers in The Five Star Stories is known as the Fillmore Empire. Appropriately enough, they often come into indirect conflict with the somewhat Edo-themed Amaterasu Kingdom Demesnes.
* He was in the end credits for ~Airplane!~.
* He is mentioned in the song-and-dance-number "mediocre Presidents" that was performed in Springfield Elementary School
* In the movie Kick-Ass the high school seen is Millard Fillmore H.S. (what about the comic, anyone know?)
* In All in The Family the high school Edith went to was named after Fillmore.
* In Superman Secret Files 2009 Pete Ross, in a flashback to when he was president, muses over the important things that previous presidents did and then adds "of the others, Millard Fillmore gave the White House a library".
* In Decades of Darkness, Fillmore is twice elected Vice-President of the Republic of New England, but his lack of charisma means he loses when he tries for the presidency itself.
- Rowdyruffboy120 appeared on Youtube in December 6, 2011. His first video was Powerpuff Girls Disobey The Law And Beats Up The Police Then, he started making Millard videos. Some of the videos got over 120 views, while the others got 20 views.
- thumb|250px|Millard Fillmore.Millard Fillmore (New York, 7 januari 1800 - New York, 8 maart 1874) was de 13de President van de Verenigde Staten. Hij volgde president Zachary Taylor op na diens dood in in juli 1850, om vervolgens opgevolgd te worden door Franklin Pierce in maart 1853. Hij was de laatste president van de Whigpartij.
- Millard Fillmore is the now-deceased 13th President of the United States, featured as a character in the animated series American Dragon: Jake Long. His name was given to Jake's school in his honor. He only ever appears as a wooden statue in the season 2 episode "The Rotwood Files".
- Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800- March 8, 1874) was the 13'th president of the United States.
- Having lived in 19th century, Millard Fillmore's statue was carved with him wearing the elegant clothing of a statesman of his time period. It is composed of a vest worn over a shirt and a pair of trousers. A bow-tie compliments the outfit. Millard Fillmore also had short and slightly puffy hair.
- Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th President of the United States (1850–1853), and the last Whig President. As Zachary Taylor's Vice President, he assumed the presidency after Taylor's death. He was a lawyer from western New York state, and an early member of the Whig Party. He served in the state legislature (1829-1831), as a U.S. Representative (1833-1835, 1837-1843), and as New York State Comptroller (1848-1849). He was elected Vice President of the United States in 1848 as Taylor's running mate, and served from 1849 until Taylor's death in 1850, at the height of the "Crisis of 1850" over slavery. Fillmore was an anti-slavery moderate; he opposed Abolitionist demands to exclude slavery from all of the territory gained in the Mexican War. Instead he supported the Compromise of 1850, which ended the crisis. In foreign policy, Fillmore supported U.S. Navy expeditions to "open" Japan, opposed French designs on Hawaii, and was embarrassed by Narciso López's filibuster expeditions to Cuba. He sought re-election in 1852, but was passed over for the nomination by the Whigs. When the Whig Party broke up in 1854-1856, Fillmore and other conservative Whigs joined the American Party, the political arm of the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic "Know-Nothing" movement, though he himself was not anti-Catholic. He was the American Party candidate for President in 1856, but finished third. During the American Civil War, Fillmore denounced secession and agreed that the Union must be maintained by force if necessary, but was very critical of the war policies of President Abraham Lincoln. After the war he supported the Reconstruction policies of President Andrew Johnson. He is consistently included in the bottom 10 of historical rankings of Presidents of the United States. Fillmore co-founded the University at Buffalo and helped found the Buffalo Historical Society, and Buffalo General Hospital.
- A fictionalized version of Millard Fillmore was portrayed by Brent Larson in the film Mercedes Ray. In the movie, Fillmore joins other U.S. Presidents to throw a massive party.
- Mill-Fill was born in a log cabin somewhere. He wanted to hunt vampires because he was born there, but didn't succeed. Like most of us, Fillmore had a crush on his teacher. Unlike most of us, he married her. Fillmore was asked to go into politics by Thurlow Weed, although Weed just made the name up while high on his namesake cultivar of cannabis. Fillmore went into the legislature as a Anti-Masonic candidate, but after learning the handshake, he was unimpressed. He became a Wig instead. Fillmore broke into the Upper Circuit when he became Taylor's Veep, not to be confused with Taylor Swift's first car, a Veep Grand Charity. Swift was totally ripped off.
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