This caused him to be denied re-nomination by the Whigs. Major Acts: Millard Fillmore signed the Compromise of 1850, which delayed the Civil War for a decade. The Compromise outlined that California ...

Like several other presidents, Millard Fillmore was born in a log ... and Henry Clay in an attempt to forestall or prevent a civil war over the issue of slavery, was making its way through ...

in a polarized nation on its way to Civil War. How very opportune. 1850 saw Whig senator Henry Clay and Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas, with the support of President Millard Fillmore ...