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Millard Fillmore Trivia Quiz Questions And Answers
Trivia questions with answers about Millard Fillmore.
Millard Fillmore Trivia Quiz Questions And Answers
Who was the 13th President of the United States?
A: Millard Fillmore.
Where was Millard Fillmore born?
A: In a log cabin in Moravia, Cayuga County, in the Finger Lakes region of New
York State.
On what date was Millard Fillmore born?
A: January 7, 1800.
Millard was the second of how many children?
A: Nine.
Of what ancestry was Millard Fillmore?
A: Fillmore's ancestors were Scottish and English.
Fillmore was raised a Presbyterian but he became a what in
later life?
A: Unitarian.
Who did Millard’s father apprentice him to?
A: A cloth maker, Benjamin Hungerford in Sparta, New York.
At what age was Millard when his father apprenticed him to
Benjamin Hungerford?
A: He was fourteen years old.
Fillmore struggled to obtain an education while he was
living where?
A: On the frontier.
He attended New Hope Academy for six months in 1819 where
met and fell in love with who?
A: His future wife Abigail Powers.
In 1819, Millard began to clerk and study law under whom?
A: Judge Walter Wood of Montville.
In 1825, he built a house in East Aurora, New York for
whom?
A: Himself and Abigail.
How many children did Millard and Abigail have?
A: They had two children.
What were Millard Fillmore’s children’s names?
A: Millard Powers Fillmore and Mary Abigail Fillmore.
Fillmore was a member of what in the 1820s and 1830s?
A: The New York Militia.
In 1846, he helped found what?
A: The private University of Buffalo, which today is the public University at
Buffalo.
In 1828, Millard was elected to the what?
A: New York State Assembly.
In Millard’s final term he chaired a special legislative
committee to enact a new what?
A: Bankruptcy law that eliminated debtors' prison.
Fillmore was a follower and associate of whom, a leading
Anti-Mason?
A: Thurlow Weed.
In Congress, Millard he opposed admitting Texas as a what?
A: Slave territory.
Millard Fillmore served as chair of the “what” from 1841 to
1843.
A: House Ways and Means Committee.
Millard was the unsuccessful Whig Party candidate for what
office in the election of 1844?
A: Governor of New York.
Who was Millard’s Vice President from 1850 to 1853?
A: None.
Who was Fillmore’s Secretary of State?
A: Daniel Webster.
President Taylor died suddenly on July 9, 1850, and
Fillmore became what?
A: President.
When Fillmore took office, what did the entire cabinet do?
A: They offered their resignations.
When Taylor’s cabinet offered their resignations what did
Fillmore do?
A: He accepted them all.
What is considered Fillmore's greatest difficulty?
A: The Fugitive Slave Law.
Southerners complained bitterly about any slackness in The
Fugitive Slave Law, but enforcement was “what” to northerners?
A: highly offensive.
Who did Fillmore appoint as the first governor of the Utah
Territory in 1850?
A: Brigham Young.
Who did Millard appoint Benjamin Robbins Curtis to the
Supreme Court of the United States?
A: Benjamin Robbins Curtis.
