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Significant Acts
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Signed a series of bills known as the Compromise of 1850, which included the Fugitive Slave Law providing for the return of escaped slaves to the South.
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Sent Commodore Matthew C. Perry on a mission to open Japanese ports to U.S. trade.
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Career
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1833-1835 and 1837-1843 Represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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1846 Became the first chancellor of the University of Buffalo.
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1849-1850 Vice president of the United States under Zachary Taylor.
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1850-1853 President of the United States.
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1856 Ran an unsuccessful campaign for president with the Know-Nothing (American) Party.
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Did You Know
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At the age of 15, Fillmore was apprenticed to a cloth maker.
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Fillmore's wife, Abigail, set up the first White House library.
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Fillmore declined an honorary degree from Oxford University, stating that 'no man should . . . accept a degree he cannot read.'
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