“Did you know that Millard Fillmore (who was never elected president) ran against Lincoln in 1860?”
Fillmore ran on the American Party ticket in 1856. The Republican nominee that year was John C. Fremont. Democrat James Buchanan won.
Fillmore retired from politics after that.
Right. I stand corrected. There was a fourth candidate in 1860, however, in addition to Lincoln, Vice President Breckenridge, and Senator Douglas: John Bell of the Constitutional union Party.
Fillmore’s American Party was a remnant of the Whigs, and I think Bell’s party was also a Whig remnant.