Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States, is one of the most obscure and forgotten American chief executives. Coming to the White House upon the untimely death of Zachary Taylor, when he’s considered at all it’s usually as just one face in a long line of forgettable failures on the road to the Civil War. In fact Fillmore was an embodiment of his age, and especially the paranoid conspiracy theories and reactionary xenophobia that were sweeping the United States in the angry decades before the war. In this video we’ll delve into Fillmore, his bizarre ideas, his (lack of) achievements as President, and why the country hastened to forget him.