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In the 1856 election, Fillmore obviously didn't stand much of a chance. But what if he did, and he won? How would he have handled the coming of Civil War? Would he have done better or worse than Buchanan? Describe in detail if you can.

I know this question might be better for a sub more devoted to alternate history, but this is my favorite Reddit community so I wanted to see what you guys think.

He’s in the class of vice-presidents who got inaugurated as president cause the sitting president died. He was also the handsomest man Queen Victoria met.

I’m reading a biography on him and I haven’t formed my opinion on him yet. He doesn’t seem all too interesting but the book is really engaging.

Where would you guys rank the 13th?

Prior Part: 1850 Mid-Term Results - Here.

|Daniel Webster's Official Presidential Portrait|

Daniel Webster's Administration Cabinet:

1849 - 1851:

The Webster Presidency began off the rocky road of the Henry Clay Presidency, an administration that was already controversial due to it losing the popular vote, the second time since the John Quincy Adams Administration back in the early 1820s. Daniel Webster, the third Whig President elected in a row after William Henry Harrison back in 1840 and given Webster's more southern leaning policies, many expect that the Webster Administration could pose to be a shake up for Washington D.C.

Foreign Policy:

-When it'd come for Mexico, relations between the United States and Mexico following the closing of the border after the discovering of gold in the lands of Alta California, sparking a gold rush in 1848 has been on the rapid decline with both nations placing their several of their army's regiments upon their border.

-President Webster would officially extend recognition to the Republic of the Yucatan in the summer of 1849, to the chagrin of Mexico who'd already been angered by the recognition of Texas as an independent nation.

-The Webster Administration would also officially recognize the Republic of Haiti as an independent nation, nearly fifty years after the second oldest republic upon the Western hemisphere became independent from France.

-In December

This is an approval rating chart of how the subreddit approves or disapproves of a Vice President.

#Note: If a Vice President that is later the president is on here, don’t take their actual presidency into account. Only count their Vice presidency.

Today’s poll is on Millard Fillmore, the Vice President to Zachary Taylor from 1849, until he had to take over after Taylor died, in 1850.

Do you approve or disapprove of Millard Fillmore as VP?

#Past Results:

• John Adams: 77.0% approved
• Thomas Jefferson: 55.4% approved
• Aaron Burr: 29.0% approved
• George Clinton: 63.0% approved
• Elbridge Gerry: 38.5% approved
• Daniel D. Tompkins: 55.8% approved
• John C. Calhoun: 26.4% approved
• Martin Van Buren: 57.4% approved
• Richard M. Johnson: 39.0% approved
• John Tyler: 50.0% approved
• George M. Dallas: 75.0% approved

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Question: On a scale from 1 to 5, how would you rate 13th President Millard Fillmore?

Finding the averages of this sub's opinions of each President. I'll being doing 'the tier list that will create the least argument' at the end. I'll also just make a post about interesting things relating to the final scoring, such as patterns, and how the list compares to other polls made by professionals.

Averages:

1. George Washington - 4.72 (Almost Perfect)
2. James Monroe - 4.15 (Great)
3. Thomas Jefferson - 4.04 (Great)
4. James K. Polk - 3.75 (Very Good)
5. James Madison - 3.67 (Very Good)
6. John Quincy Adams - 3.21 (Good)
7. William Henry Harrison - 3.06 (Good) [Most of the votes were probably jokes but oh well]
8. Zachary Taylor - 2.98 (Mildly Good)
9. John Adams - 2.72 (Mildly Good)
10. Andrew Jackson - 2.59 (Mildly Good)
11. Martin Van Buren - 2.24 (Mildly Bad)
12. John Tyler - 2.21 (Mildly Bad)

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Today you are encouraged to make polls about Millard Fillmore.

(This is not required, and you can post about anything else if you want. This is just meant to increase activity by introducing specific topics.)

Do you think this definition fits Millard Fillmore?
" a Northern congressman not opposed to slavery in the South before or during the American Civil War also : a Northerner sympathetic to the South during the same period. "

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In this series, I will create an alternate C-span survey called D-span Survey. We will have 5 parameters- Economic Management, Moral Authority and Relation with Congress, International Relations, Administrative Skills, and Performance with context to his time. We will one-by-one move toward each goal. Each President will be given marks out of 100( 20 for each criterion). 20 Points will be given on the basis of approval rating.

George Washington- 16.112(Great)

John Adams- 12.51(Good)

Thomas Jefferson- 15.42(Very Good)

James Madison- 14.24(Very Good)

James Monroe- 16.24(Great)

John Q Adams- 12.9(Good)

Andrew Jackson- 8.55(Mildly Satisfactory)

Martin Van Buren- 8.29(Mildly Satisfactory)

William H Harrison- 13.875(IDK why?)

John Tyler- 9.7(Mildly Satisfactory)

James K Polk- 14.51(Very Good)

Zachery Taylor- 12(Good)

How do you assess Millard Fillmore on the parameter of Economic Management?

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Disunion At Hand:

Thousands of Texan militamen were beginning to mobilize for their march into New Mexico to seize the territory. Few expected them to stand any chance against federal troops alone, but the governors of several Southern states had pledged aid to the Texan cause if the federal government intervened. In Nashville dozens of Southern politicians had assembled a convention to discuss secession. Disunion was no longer a threat, it seemed an ever present reality, a possibility for the near future. In the center of it all, he stood. He had worked his way up from poverty, memorizing the dictionary as he toiled as a child. Miraculously he had climbed first the ladder of law and now that of politics, to the highest rung of both, and now the union itself was balanced precipitously on his shoulders.

Henry Clay had toiled for months on the bill, working against the Taylor Administration and forming a coalition of unionists from North and South, but it was not enough. Clay had saved the union twice before, during the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Nullification Crisis of 1833, but he was not enough now. This challenge trumped every other in his half century in political life, and thus his omnibus compromise bill was defeated by a coalition of pro-slavery Southern Fireaters and anti-slavery Northern abolitionists. Finally, that little “steam engine in britches,” 37 year old Stephen Douglas, had succeeded where the 73 year old “Harry of the West” had failed. Sending every compromise measure individually, with the backing of the new administration, he had been able to fracture the anti-compromise coalition and form a bill that narrowly passed both chambers of congress.

And so Fillmore contemplated. He believed in the Compromise, believed that it would save the Union, but a part of it he barely stomached: The Fugitive Slave Act. His wife had written to him multiple times pleading him to veto it, his political allies in anti-slavery New York, and by god, his own consience told him so, but he did not heed the advice of all. He signed the bill, causing outrage throughout the North and killing his political future, and with it he signed away his legacy in the eyes of many.

Millard Fillmore: Savior of Union

For many since then, Millard Fillmore’s legacy has been defined by his signature on the bill. The Fugitive Slave Act was a horrid piece of legislation, repugnant to any decent person’s sense of morality, yet Fillmore signed it. In this essa

In his years of presidency

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