Fillmore. Millard - (Born January 7, 1800; Died natural causes March 8, 1874, New York) Thirteenth President of the United States of America, (July 9, 1850 – March 4, 1853) signed the Compromise of 1850, thus avoiding the sectional conflagration resulting in the Civil War for another 10 years, with the disintegration of the Whig Party and his refusal to join the Republicans, Fillmore wound up a party man from the Know Nothings. (Whig)