Millard Fillmore In '52

Milard Fillmore vs Franklin Pierce in the 1852 presidential election

  • Milard Fillmore couldn't win

  • Fillmore could win, but it wouldn't really matter

  • Fillmore could win, but it would have only delayed the Civil War

  • Fillmore could win and might have prevented the Civil War


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Joshism

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Millard Fillmore became president when Zachary Taylor died in 1850, but the Whigs ran Winfield Scott in 1852 instead. Fillmore ran on the American / Know-Nothing ticket in 1856, mostly in the South (the Northern Know-Nothings having generally gone Republican, putting the expansion of slavery over immigration).

Could Fillmore have won reelection at the head of the Whig ticket in 1852? He had the advantage of not appearing to be Zachary Taylor II. Taylor was a Whig general from the South who ****** off Southerners in 1850 by putting union first; Scott was a Whig general from the South who didn't even have the decency to own a large plantation like Taylor. How could Southerner's trust him on the most important issue to them?

Would it have made any difference with him in office instead of Franklin Pierce? James Buchanan's long resume would suggest he runs in 1856 whether he's proceeded by Pierce, Fillmore, or Scott.
 
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