Timeline March 1874

Events in March 1874 2

• 1800 – 1874 Millard Fillmore 13th President — last Whig president Millard Fillmore (Jan 7, 1800 – Mar 8, 1874) was the 13th President 1850-1853, the last Whig president. He signed the Compromise of 1850 including the Fugitive Slave Act, which damaged his legacy.
• 1811 – 1874 Charles Sumner (1811-1874) Died 11 March 1874, aged 63 Sumner was a leading Radical Republican senator from Massachusetts and a lifelong opponent of slavery. He was infamously beaten nearly to death on the Senate floor in 1856 by a pro-slavery congressman. He later championed civil rights legislation for freed slaves during Reconstruction.