President Millard Fillmore

Birth	7 JAN 1800
Occup	1829-1831
Occup	1833-1835
Occup	1837-1843
Org.	1841-1843		US House Committee on Ways and Means, Chairperson
Election	1843		NY US Senate Election
Election	1848		USA Presidential Election
Org.	1848-1849		Comptroller, New York
Occup	1849-1850
Occup	1850-1853
Election	1856		USA Presidential Election
Death	8 MAR 1874		Cause: stroke
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Most of his adult life he was Unitarian; there is little direct testimony about his religious views, but some of the aspects of his political career reflect his attitudes.

Born in the Finger Lakes country in the western part of the State of New York on January 7, 1800, Fillmore as a youth endured the privations of a frontier life. He attended one-room schools, worked on his father’s farm and fell in love with the redheaded school teacher, Abigail Power, who later became his wife. 

He was self-taught in law and was admitted to the bar in 1823. He became a protege and long time associate of one of the Whig political bosses, Thurlow Weed. Along the way he was in the State Legislature, and then for eight years in the U.S. House of... Read More