(Awake in the first month on the 20th), March 8, 1874, death of Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States.


Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), the United States 13 any the president (1850.7.10-1853.3.4), was born in New York on January 7, 1800.
Fillmore second in the history of the United States who inherited the presidency as a vice president, in office only two years and eight months. Fillmore is always held on the issue of slavery intransigence. In 1850, he signed a compromise bill on the Southern slaveholders. This bill both North dissatisfaction, they did not win the trust of the South. Not curry favor, his defeat in the 1852 presidential election. His remarkable achievements in foreign policy, the term diplomatic action is dispatched Rear Admiral Perry led the fleet to Japan, forcing the Japanese government to open Haikou with the United States Tsusho, which open the door of Japan ". (L $ dj��.����T)
spending too much of his presidency, upon his departure he has no savings, economic trouble. His formal recommendations to the U.S. government: give each outgoing president's annual salary of $ 12,000, but did not reply. Failed again in the 1856 general election, he gave all his heart into a public career in his hometown of Buffalo. Donations to establish the Buffalo secondary schools, the YMCA, the Historical Society, General Hospital, Library. But already deep in debt, unable to repay the debt. Fortunately, he did in February 1858, a wealthy widow Caroline love, marriage, Caroline pay off his debt, so he was able to continue in future years in his career keen. March 8, 1874, Fillmore stroke death, aged 74 years.