How Did Millard Fillmore Become An Accidental President

Millard Fillmore was born on January 7, 1800 in Summerhill, New York. He was born into extreme poverty. He had 8 siblings and his father was a farmer.

This is the house Millard was

Born in. At the age of 15, his father got him an apprenticeship working for a cloth maker. The cloth maker played the family and then took Millard to a small town. After nearly being worked to death, he walked the 4 miles home to his family and began working on his father’s farm. Millard was not exposed to very many books, he would often steal them. After coming home from his apprenticeship he moved to New Hope, New York. There he went to New Hope Academy, and met Abigail Powers. Abigail was Millard’s school teacher. He soon fell for his red-headed school teacher,

His first job was being a clerk for the local judge. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1823. A man named William Morgan, was kidnapped and never seen again. People believed that the masons were behind it and controversy arose. This is the movement that caused the Anti-Masonic Party to come about, and Fillmore joined. Thus his career in politics began. This is the symbol for the masons.

Millard Fillmore didn’t campaign for president. He was our “accidental president”, because his campaigning partner Zachary Taylor died during his first year in office. Being the Vice President, he had to take over. This was his first time running for office.

An interesting fact was that Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore had never met until after they were both elected. The two men were polar opposites from the way they dressed to the way they rode a

The two bills were; The Fugitive Slave Act, even though he was against slavery, Kansas-Nebraska Act. These bills were part of the compromise of 1850.

After President Taylor died and Fillmore took over, he fired all of Taylor’s appointed members. During meetings they would ignore Fillmore. He then appointed his own members of Congress.

As for enjoying himself as President, you can’t really be too sure. He was thrown right into the job, being informed of Taylor’s grave condition only hours before he passed away. Who knows, perhaps he did enjoy himself a little bit.

Yes, Millard did run for president again, this time representing the American Party. He only won the state of Maryland.

He returned to Buffalo, New York and remarried, because by this time Abigail had died, and officially retired, but did not fully withdraw from politics. He criticized President James Buchanan for not immediately doing something to South Carolina after it succeeded from the union. Millard also didn’t like Lincoln’s forgiving policies for the south. He did support Andrew Jackson’s approach to reconstruction.

Caroline Carmichael McIntosh, was Millard’s wife. They never had any children and she died August 11,