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____ was the thirteenth president of the United States. ____ was born in a log cabin on a frontier farm in Cayuga County, N.Y., Jan. 7, 1800. In 1828, ____ was elected to the New York legislature and his chief legislative contribution was outlawing imprisonment for debt in New York. In 1843, ____ helped provide Samuel F.B. Morse with $30,000 to aid in perfecting the telegraph - Morse Code. ____ was President Zachary Taylor's vice president; however, he became president when Taylor died while still in office. ____ was the last president from the Whig Party. ____ worked hard to secure the passage of five separate bills dealing with the slavery problem. ____'s set of laws, called the Compromise of 1850, postponed the Civil War for another ten years.
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