1849 - 1853: Martin Van Buren (Free soil) - 12th
1848 (with Charles Adams) def. Millard Fillmore (Whig), Lewis Cass (Democrat)
1853 - 1857: John C Fremont (Republican) - 13th
1852 (with William Dayton) def. Martin Van Buren (Free Soil), Franklin Pierce (Democrat)
1857 - 1860: Millard Fillmore (Know Nothing) - 14th
1856 (with Andrew Donelson) def. John C Fremont (Republican), James Buchanan (Democrat)
1860: Fillmore Resigns
1860-61: Andrew Donelson (Know Nothing) - 15th
1861 - 1869: Charles Sumner (Republican) - 16th
1860 (with Andrew Johnson) def. Andrew Donelson (Know Nothing)
1864 (with Abraham Lincoln) def. George McClellan (Democrat)
Martin Van Buren:
1850: Van Buren accepts Senator Henry Clay's Omnibus Bill which states the following:
California would be admitted to the Union as a free state; New Mexico and Utah would be organized as territories with the status of slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty; the slave trade, but not slavery itself, would be terminated in the District of Columbia; the fugitive slave law would be strengthened; Congress would declare that it had no right to interfere in the interstate slave trade; the disputed boundary between Texas and New Mexico would be adjusted, and the United States would assume the pre‐annexation debt of Texas. 1
John C Fremont:
1857: Supreme Court Sides With Dredd Scott:
The Court ruled the fugitive slave law unconstitutional and those slaves who escaped to the north be set free.
Millard Fillmore (Know Nothing):
Passes Act that states to become a citizen of the United States you must have resided in the country for 21 years. (this has no effect on anything, Fillmore was weird)
1860: Fillmore Resigns after 7 states secede (to be continued)
1848 (with Charles Adams) def. Millard Fillmore (Whig), Lewis Cass (Democrat)
1853 - 1857: John C Fremont (Republican) - 13th
1852 (with William Dayton) def. Martin Van Buren (Free Soil), Franklin Pierce (Democrat)
1857 - 1860: Millard Fillmore (Know Nothing) - 14th
1856 (with Andrew Donelson) def. John C Fremont (Republican), James Buchanan (Democrat)
1860: Fillmore Resigns
1860-61: Andrew Donelson (Know Nothing) - 15th
1861 - 1869: Charles Sumner (Republican) - 16th
1860 (with Andrew Johnson) def. Andrew Donelson (Know Nothing)
1864 (with Abraham Lincoln) def. George McClellan (Democrat)
Martin Van Buren:
1850: Van Buren accepts Senator Henry Clay's Omnibus Bill which states the following:
California would be admitted to the Union as a free state; New Mexico and Utah would be organized as territories with the status of slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty; the slave trade, but not slavery itself, would be terminated in the District of Columbia; the fugitive slave law would be strengthened; Congress would declare that it had no right to interfere in the interstate slave trade; the disputed boundary between Texas and New Mexico would be adjusted, and the United States would assume the pre‐annexation debt of Texas. 1
John C Fremont:
1857: Supreme Court Sides With Dredd Scott:
The Court ruled the fugitive slave law unconstitutional and those slaves who escaped to the north be set free.
Millard Fillmore (Know Nothing):
Passes Act that states to become a citizen of the United States you must have resided in the country for 21 years. (this has no effect on anything, Fillmore was weird)
1860: Fillmore Resigns after 7 states secede (to be continued)
