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Abigail Powers Fillmore had first met husband President Millard Fillmore when he was her student, and as a teacher she had been the first First Lady to have held a job after marriage. During her ...
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 2707. Source citation. Son of 13th United States President Millard Fillmore. Served as private secretary to his father during his father's presidency. Attended Harvard and studied law at his father's law office. Appointed as a federal court clerk after practicing law in Buffalo, New York. Died a bachelor with no children.
Millard Fillmore (born January 7, 1800, Locke township, New York, U.S.—died March 8, 1874, Buffalo, New York) was the 13th president of the United States (1850–53), whose insistence on federal enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 alienated the North and led to the destruction of the Whig Party. Elected vice president in 1848, he ...
Millard Fillmore nació en el Condado de Cayuga, estado de Nueva York. Fue el segundo hijo de un total de nueve del matrimonio entre Natahniel Fillmore y Phoebe Millard, y el mayor de los varones. [2] Se casó el 26 de febrero de 1826 con Abigail Powers, a quien conoció mientras estudiaba en la Academia New Hope y ella era su profesora. [3]
Shared eagerness for schooling formed a bond when Abigail Powers at 21 met Millard Fillmore at 19, both students at a recently opened academy in the village of New Hope. Although she soon became young Fillmore's inspiration, his struggle to make his way as a lawyer was so long and ill paid that they were not married until February 1826.
Fillmore was married to Abigail Powers. They had two children, Millard Powers Fillmore and Mary Abigail Fillmore. Both he and Abigail are known for their modifications to the White House; as president, Fillmore established the first permanent White House library, while his wife ordered the installation of the building's first bathtub to make use of running water.
Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, the last president to have been a member of the Whig Party while in office. A former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Fillmore was elected vice president in 1848, and succeeded to the presidency when Zachary ...
