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  • PLACE OF DEATH: Buffalo, New York
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Millard Fillmore is best known for assuming the presidency after the death of Zachary Taylor.


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Millard Fillmore was born January 7, 1800 in Locke Township, New York. Fillmore began his political career in the anti-Masonic party, but switched to the Whig Party through his association with Henry Clay. He became the Vice President under Zachary Taylor, assuming the Presidency after Taylor's death in 1850. Fillmore was responsible for forcing open Japan to trade with the Treaty of Kanagawa.

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