Compromiser

1/7/1800 – 3/8/1874 Party: Whig Timeline; 1850-1853 Fillmore started work in a law office at an early age, being admitted to the bar in 1823. Entering politics in 1828, he served in the New York assembly (1829-1832) and eventually won a spot in congress as New York’s 32nd district representative (1833-1835) and again (1837-1843). Then…