Millard Fillmore
N 42° 41.561 W 076° 20.100
18T E 390644 N 4727552
Millard Fillmore was born on January 7, 1800, in Locke Township (now Summerhill), Cayuga County, New York
Waymark Code: WM5HK
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 01/02/2006
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Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States (1850-53). He was a Whig. He taught school and studied law. In 1848, he was elected Vice-President. He became became president on 10 July 1850, when President Zachary Taylor died.
In his rise from a log cabin to wealth and the White House, Millard Fillmore demonstrated that through methodical industry and some competence an uninspiring man could make the American dream come true.
Born in the Finger Lakes country of New York in 1800, Fillmore as a youth endured the privations of frontier life. He worked on his father's farm, and at 15 was apprenticed to a cloth dresser. He attended one-room schools, and fell in love with the redheaded teacher, Abigail Powers, who later became his wife.
President Name: Millard Fillmore
Birth Place?: yes
Term Of Office: 1850-53
Date of Birth: 01/07/1800
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