Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was the last president hailing from the Whig Party before it dissolved. This president grew up in a poor family but he managed to rise to the status of vice president by getting a good education. He attained the position under President Zachary Taylor. When the president died of cholera, Fillmore then became the 13th President of the United States in 1850. The whole White House resigned right after Taylor’s death so he needed to create a new one from the bottom up. He tried to resolve tensions between the North and South with the Compromise of 1850, though it was not very effective. He also improved relations with the newly-opened Japan.
Millard Fillmore
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the United States and he was in office during a difficult moment in American history. The Stanford University graduate married his college girlfriend and worked in China before he launched his political career. He was in Europe when the First World War erupted and he earned recognition by helping evacuate about 120,000 American tourists in France and Germany. He was in power from 1929 until 1933, the same time the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began. Hoover employed many methods to improve things in the country, though we all know these things take time to get better.
Herbert Hoover