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  Millard Fillmore Quiz Challenge    
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 10 Qns
This 10-question quiz is on President Millard Fillmore.
Average, 10 Qns, gbretthof99, Dec 31 10
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  Tough Millard Fillmore Quiz - 15 Questions    
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A quiz on the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore.
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What political party did Fillmore belong to at the beginning of his political career?

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Millard Fillmore Trivia Questions
1. In what state was Fillmore born?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: New York

Fillmore was born in Locke Township, NY on January 7, 1800.

2. When was Millard Fillmore born?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: January 7, 1800

Millard Fillmore was born in Cayuga county, New York. His parents were Nathaniel Fillmore and Phoebe Millard Fillmore.

3. What religion did Fillmore practice?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: Unitarian

Fillmore was a charter member of the Buffalo Unitarian Church when it was founded in 1831.

4. In 1848 Millard Fillmore was elected vice president. Who was elected president over him?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: Zachary Taylor

In 1848 the Whig party chose Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore as running mates. Fillmore was from the North and Taylor was from the South. As a result, they won the 1848 election.

5. What was the maiden name of Fillmore's first wife Abigail?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: Powers

Fillmore married Abigail Powers in Moravia, New York on February 5, 1826.

6. Millard Fillmore was the _________ President of the United States.

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: 13th & thirteenth & 13 & thirteen

Millard Fillmore became the 13th President of the United States after Zachary Taylor died on July 9, 1850.

7. What political party did Fillmore belong to at the beginning of his political career?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: Anti-Mason

Fillmore was elected to three one-year terms to the New York State Assembly as a member of the Anti-Mason party from 1829-1831.

8. What state was Millard Fillmore from?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: New York

Millard Fillmore was from Locke, New York.

9. While a member of the US House of Representatives, what committee did Fillmore serve as chairman of?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: Ways & Means

Fillmore served as chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee from 1841 to 1843.

10. Which party did Millard Fillmore join in 1834?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: Whig

Millard Fillmore joined the Whig party in 1834. As a Whig, he helped make laws that taxed goods from other countries.

11. In what city was Fillmore when he received word that President Zachary Taylor had died?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: Washington DC

Fillmore had actually visited with Taylor the afternoon of his death, so Taylor's death came as no surprise. Fillmore was sworn in as president at noon the next day before a joint session of Congress.

12. What was the only state to join the union while Fillmore was president?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: California

California joined the union on September 9, 1850, about two months after Fillmore became president.

13. Who became secretary of state in the Fillmore administration after the death of Daniel Webster?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: Edward Everett

Everett served as secretary of state for only the last few months of Fillmore's administration. Everett is better known as being the feature speaker in Gettysburg, before Abraham Lincoln gave his famous address there.

14. Millard Fillmore ran for president in 1856 but lost. Who did he lose the election to?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: James Buchanan

Millard Fillmore ran for president but lost to James Buchanan in 1856. He decided to run for president after his first wife and daughter died.

15. In addition to Utah, what other territory was established by the Compromise of 1850, which was passed during the Fillmore administration?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: New Mexico

The US was originally going to offer New Mexico statehood but they decided instead that they only wanted to come into the union as a territory.

16. Millard Fillmore was married twice. His first wife died of pneumonia. What was her name?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: Abigail Powers

Abigail Powers was born in 1798. She died of pneumonia on March 30, 1853.

17. In 1855, while Fillmore was traveling in Europe, he appeared before the British House of Commons at the same time as what other famous American?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: Martin Van Buren

Van Buren was travelling in Europe at the same time as Fillmore. While Fillmore did not appear before the House of Commons with Greeley, he did bail Greeley out of prison while in Paris. Greeley was in prison there for failing to pay a debt.

18. While in Europe, Fillmore had an audience with which Pope?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: Pius IX

Pius IX served as Pope from 1846-1878.

19. When Fillmore ran for president in 1856 for the American Party, he won the electoral votes of only one state. Which state was it?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: Maryland

Fillmore won only the 8 electoral votes of Maryland. He received 21% of the popular vote and finished third in the election behind James Buchanan and John C. Fremont.

20. How many strokes did Fillmore suffer from before he died in 1874?

From Quiz Millard Fillmore

Answer: 2

Fillmore was in excellent health up to a few weeks before his death. On February 13, 1874, Fillmore suffered his first stroke while shaving, which paralyzed Fillmore on his left side. Fillmore suffered his second and last stroke on February 26 and died on March 8, 1874

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