Biography Of Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore, New York native, farm kid, & 13th President. Rose in poverty, rose to success. School drop-out to President of the United States. Incredible human and intelligent leader. He planned his goals out and worked hard to complete them. Here is his story to his road to success.

Millard Fillmore was born January 7, 1800 in Summerhill, New York.[1] He was the second child out of 9 kids.[2] He was also the oldest son out of all the 9 kids. He was born and raised on a farm. He worked most of his life. He completed 3 years of school and later stopped going and worked for his family. At the age of 14 he had learned how to make cloth by his father Nathaniel Fillmore in a shop in Sparta, New York.[3] He worked at the cloth-making trades and he worked with various trade shops.[4] He always had a hard time obtaining an education living in the frontier of New Hope, New York.[5] He attended New Hope Academy in New Hope, New York for 6 months in the year 1819 at the age of 19. At the New Hope Academy he met and fell in love with his future wife Abigail Powers.[6] She would later become the first lady. That same year Millard began to study law under Judge Walter wood of Montville. Later on with the cloth-making background he had decided to buy out his cloth-making apprenticeship.[7] He left Judge Walter Wood and traveled to Buffalo, New York to continue to study law under Asa Rice and Joseph Clary.[8] In the year 1823 he was admitted to the bar and began to practice law where he had started sloth-making, East Aurora, New York. There he built a house for him and his future wife Abigail. They started their life together by getting married February 5, 1826;[9] Millard was the age of 26 years old when he got married. After they married ...

... middle of paper ...

...em to open up for trade with the U.S. Fillmore also had to deal with France which was trying to take over Hawaii.[22] Election of 1852 was arriving and Fillmore didn’t know if he should or shouldn’t run for a full term he finally decided that he was going to run again. He ran in the 1852 election and ended up losing to Winfield Scott. Franklin Pierce defeated Scott in the November election and Fillmore got to finish his term.[23]

After office Fillmore’s wife became sick and passed away.[24] Fillmore had successful life as a cloth-maker, lawyer, and congressman. Fillmore had a large impact with the slavery issues. He helped a good amount of states become free from slavery. Therefore he had a successful term although he didn’t go a full term he indeed made an impact in the office. Fillmore the 13th President was a success story. Born in the poor and rose to the top.