Millard Fillmore is likely the least-memorable US President. He is so obscure that his nickname is “the American Louis Philippe.” He simply finished up Taylor’s term in office and was denied renomination by his party for a full term. He actually had a fairly interesting, though forgotten, retirement, appearing with former President Martin Van Buren in London’s House of Commons, bailing Horace Greeley out of jail, and running (though not of his own accord) once more for president after having been nominated by the American Party (he came in third to winner James Buchanan and runner-up John Fremont, carrying only the state of Maryland). In 1861 he hosted President-elect Abraham Lincoln who was on his way to his inauguration in Washington. All this could not make him stick in the history books, however. He died in 1874 and was buried in an unremarkable grave at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York, the city where he lived in retirement. There is actually a “Millard Fillmore Club” that holds a ceremony to remember this forgotten president every January 7 (his birthday) at his gravesite.
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