Fillmore was born in New York at around the turn of the 18th-19th century as the second child out of nine an oldest son. When he was 19, he started to study politcs. He married his teacher, Abigail Powers, in 1826. He became a teacher himself.

He became vice-president because the former one died. He was very funny and fair with people. He was an abolitionist that owned slaves. During his term as vice-president in the first half of 1850, he passed the Comprimise of 1850, which said that California would be a slave state, and the Utah and New Mexico territories could be occupied by slaveholders OR abolitionists.

When he was president(1850- 1853), he created a link to Japan by sending Matthew C. Perry. After Fillmore's presidency ended in March of 1853, Perry made a treaty with Japan. He also joined the Know-Nothings party. Fillmore then died in 1874.

by Harrison