Millard Fillmore
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"Millard Fillmore" was the List of Presidents of the United States/13th President of the United States (1850–1853), the last Whig Party (United States)/Whig president, and the last president not to be affiliated with either the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic or Republican Party (United States)/Republican parties. Fillmore was the only Whig president that did not die in office or get expelled from the party, and Fillmore appointed the only Whig United States Supreme Court/Supreme Court List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States/Justice. He is consistently included in the bottom 10 of historical rankings of Presidents of the United States. As Zachary Taylor's vice president, he assumed the presidency after Taylor's death. Fillmore 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 United States House of Representatives/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 in the United States/slavery.

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It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress.

The nourishment is palatable.

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.