Us president millard fillmore biography


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Millard Fillmore

(1800-1874)

Synopsis

Millard Fillmore was born in New York on January 7, 1800.

Us president millard fillmore biography presidency accomplishments

Fillmore began his political career in the anti-Masonic party, but switched to the Whig Party through his association with Henry Clay. He became vice president under President Zachary Taylor, assuming the presidency after Taylor's death in 1850.

As the 13th U.S. president, Fillmore was responsible for forcing open Japan to trade with the Treaty of Kanagawa.

Early Life

Millard Fillmore was born in extreme poverty in a log cabin on January 7, 1800, in Locke Township, New York.

At age 15, he was apprenticed to a cloth maker by his father to keep the family solvent. After nearly two years of brutal apprenticeship, Fillmore left and moved to New Hope, New York.

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    • Around this time, he became obsessed with educating himself, stealing books when he could. He attended New Hope Academy, where he met his future wife, Abigail Powers, who was teaching the class. The couple wed in 1826.

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