Whig · 1850–1853
Millard Fillmore
Signed the Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act included.
Millard Fillmore was president 1850–1853. The party color on the chart is Whig. Early presidents are not forced into today’s party names. The placement note is: Signed the Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act included.
The dot is economics +12 and authority +30. That is near the middle on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Color and place are allowed to disagree. Theodore Roosevelt sits left of Grover Cleveland on economics.
What was said, and what the administration did, are filed separately. Said: The Compromise of 1850 as the price of the Union. Done: He signed it, Fugitive Slave Act included. The peace lasted one decade. Where those two sentences pull apart, the dot follows the governing record, not the slogan.
The nearest other presidents on these two numbers are James Buchanan (1857–1861, +10 / +28) and Franklin Pierce (1853–1857, +8 / +32). A small distance can join people who would have disliked each other. The chart is a compression, not a claim that they were alike.
Presidents are not placed with the Voteview roll-call score used for the current Congress. Two axes cannot carry a war, a court, a tariff, and a civil-rights record as separate facts.