Per this biography he seems pretty colorless. Is he known for anything more than the listed western state expansion negotiations and the 1850 Compromise (Fugitive Slave Act) ?
Isn’t he that duck in the funny pages?
I just remember that in Cub Scouts my group had to give a presentation about the presidents, each of us picking one and giving a short 2-minute or so speech about him. Everyone picked Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Jefferson, etc. and I picked Filmore. Why? I don’t know - probably because I never heard of him. To think I could have had Chester Arthur instead.:smack:
Can’t remember anything about Filmore though. I have a good book of presidential history at home, though; I’ll check him out later.
He’s notorious for being the least notorious president. I read some study that said if you asked people to “name a random number between 1 and 100,” some very large percentage would choose 37. Why? Because it sounds most “random.” Of course, this makes no sense, but that’s what people pick. Millard Fillmore is the 37 of U.S. presidents.
There’s a club dedicated to his memory that goes by the acronym SPERMFLOW (Society for the Preservation and Enhancement of the Recognition of Millard Fillmore, Last Of the Whigs). I used to belong. They have a newsletter called “The Fillmore Bungle”.
I had an English teacher in high school who didn’t know Millard Fillmore had been a President, and she refused to believe me when I told her. I had to go get my history book and show her to make her stop insisting I was lying. She thought I was trying to trick her. Frighteningly, I think the year after I graduated, she started teaching the cross-over American History/American Lit class. :eek:
Some highlights of Millard Fillmore’s career and administration:
U.S. Representative, 1833-1835, 1837-1843
– As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, drafted the Tariff Act of 1842
Comptroller of NY State, 1849-1849
– promoted expansion of the Erie Canal system
Vice President, 1849-1850
– Fillmore had never met Zachary Taylor, the presidential candidate, until after they were elected
– Presided over Senate debate of the Compromise of 1850
– Was largely ignored by Taylor and had little influence in the administration
– Became president after Taylor’s death in July 1850
President, 1850-1853
– Compromise of 1850
Reversing Taylor’s administration’s position, Fillmore embraced the Compromise, which included the admission of CA as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act, mentioned in the OP.
– Treaty of Kanagawa (1854) was the result of Fillmore’s sending Commodore Matthew C. Perry to Japan to work out a treaty opening trade and shipping rights in Japan.
The Whig party was not pleased with Fillmore’s support of the Fugitive Slave Act, which cost him the nomination in 1852.
In 1856 he was nominated for President by the American (Know-Nothing) Party, and actually carried one state (Maryland) in the election. That election was won by Buchanan. Fillmore supported the Union in the Civil War, but was looked upon unfavorably for his support of the Fugitive Slave Act and other pro-Southern policies during his political career.
Source: William A. DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents
So, to answer your original question:
The answer is: no, not really.
37th? That sounds wrong.
Cite?
Ah! METAPHOR (duh…)
Muste lern too rede
He is one of the 16 Presidents that GWBush is related to.
http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/03/31/bush/print.html
Well, he had some unusual names. In fact, was both a Millard AND a Fillmore.
Pretty remarkable when you think about it. 
We are the mediocre presidents.
You won’t find our faces on dollars or on cents!
There’s Taylor, there’s Tyler,
There’s Fillmore and there’s Hayes.
There’s William Henry Harrison,
Harrison: I died in thirty days!
We… are… the…
Adequate, forgettable,
Occasionally regrettable
Caretaker presidents of the U-S-A!
Cecil thought he was worth a column.
Fillmore was the second(and last) whig to be elected VP and the second(and last) whig to advance to the presidency due to death of the previous President.
Bah. He was clearly no David Rice Atchison.
I think the Brady kids went to Fillmore Junior High School.
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/atchison.htm
He was no President.
Maybe not, but Atchison was born in a town called “Frogtown”, and you just have to be impressed by that. Plus, he did the whole Kansas-Nebraska Act thing.
From Dave Barry Slept Here:
Fillmore is also notable for the popular music theaters he founded in New York and San Francisco 
Hey, don’t be picking on Millard!! I had the distinct honor of working on the team selected by the Cayuga County Board of Legislators to design and build the Millard Fillmore Trail connecting Skaneateles Lake and the Village of Moravia, where the Chief Executive in question was born.
Besides, of many Presidents has it been said by their opponents that they Know Nothing – but of our Presidents, only Fillmore ran for President under that party designation!