Friday, March 8, 2024

Sunday, March 8, 1874. The Death of Millard Fillmore.

Millard Fillmore, the 13th President of the United States, and the last Whig President, died at age 74.


Formally cited frequently, and perhaps unfairly, as the worst President in U.S. history, his position in that contra honorific has been firmly supplanted by Donald Trump, who stands to very likely be the last Republican President in U.S. history.  Unlike his blowhard, crude fellow New Yorker, Fillmore was a personally honorable man who suffered much personal tragedy in his life.  He was a lawyer by trade, and not a wealthy man.

Last prior:

February 24, 1874. Honus Wagner born.

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