Millard Fillmore was the thirteenth president of the United States.  When President Fillmore moved into the White House, there weren't any books there, not even a Bible.  His wife converted a large room on the second floor into a library and bought books for the White House.

Important events during President Fillmore's administration were:

• California was admitted as the 31st state on September 9, 1850.

• The cornerstone for the southern extension of the Capitol was laid on July 4, 1851.

• The Flying Cloud, a clipper ship, sailed into San Francisco Harbor on August 20, 1851, just 89 days after leaving New York.

• A fire destroyed part of the Capitol on December 24, 1851.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe published her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, in 1852.  It was a book about the evils of slavery.  President Lincoln said when he met her:  "This is the girl who started the war."

• The Washington Territory was created out of the northern part of Oregon on March 2, 1853.

Millard Fillmore was

• the second President born in New York.

• the second President whose father was alive when he was inaugurated.

• the second President to remarry.

• the fourth President to marry a widow.

• the first President to have a step-mother.