He had his way. He shuffled off to Buffalo.
"Millard Fillmore" is a very nerdy-sounding name. People don't make fun of it as much as "Archibald Butterfinger" or "Richard Cox," but it's still up there. He was named after his mother AND his father, because that's what every kid wants. Suffice to say, he did not grow up normally.
He became U.S. President instead, sort of.
Millard Fillmore inherited the title of President of the United States when Zachary Taylor died in the year 1850. It is widely suspected that President Taylor may have been the victim of poisonous MURDER, but nobody of note has ever suggested that Fillmore committed the crime.
Since Zachary Taylor was obviously not able to fix EVERYTHING before he got bumped off, this left Fillmore with plenty to do. The main thing he did was add California as a state, but he did not have the foresight to chop it up first. So now it's still there and way too big and populated and good old Millard ain't around to be held accountable no more. Shrewd.
Because of this and many other reasons, Millard Fillmore was never again allowed to be President. As a part of his horrible downspiral, he also chose to align himself with a group called the "Know Nothing" party. For realsies. It's difficult to tell what his agent was thinking right then. Perhaps it was intended to be a Generation X "We Don't Care!" type approach that just never found its legs. Curious.
"I don't know anything! Elect me!" (No Bush jokes, please.)
So upon being shunned by Democrats, Republicans, and Whiggers alike, Millard Fillmore retreated to his hometown of Buffalo, NY and built himself his own house, which remains standing to this day. Nobody is allowed to live in it though, so don't even TRY to buy it.
You might call him the Do-It-Yourself President. Especially because he didn't really DO anything. "Run your own damn country, I don't know. Where's the wings?"
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