From Log Cabin to Wealth-Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore came from poor, uneducated beginnings and eventually became a wealthy man. Millard Fillmore was born on January 7, 1800, in Cayuga County, New York. He worked on his father’s farm, and at age 15, and was apprenticed to a clothe dresser. Fillmore received little education until he was eighteen. He were to attend one-room schools, taught by Abigail Powers, who later became Fillmore’s wife. He was taught how to read and later became a lawyer.
In 1823, he was admitted to the bar ( lawyers considered collectively, or the profession of a lawyer). Fillmore an Abigail married on February 5, 1826, and later had two kids. He later moved his law skills to Buffalo. Then followed three terms in the New York state assembly from 1829-1832, and was elected to Congress. Where he then became a follower of the senator Henry Clay.
Fillmore was a follower of his political mentor, Thurlow Weed. In which he became an associate of the Whig party in 1834. Soon he became a leader to the party. Fillmore believed that the wig success at the election gave a sign of a truly national party that could occupy the middle borders between sectional extremist from the North and South. This was expressed in the Compromise of 1850, which purpose was to satisfy both sides on the slavery issue. It was apparent, after, that although the Compromise was
intended to settle the slavery controversy, it appealed more of a tough sectional truce. Although Fillmore wasn't against slavery, he supported the compromise to sustain the Union. Yet he did believed that nothing can be done to abolish it. He had once said, "God knows, that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsibl...
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...854. Also lead to similar agreements between Japan and other Western powers. Which then marked the transformation of Japan into a state.
Since the Whig Party had fallen apart in the 1850's, Fillmore refused to join the Republican Party, and instead had accepted a nomination for President of the Know Nothing party. After the Civil War, he out Andrew Johnson's policies aside. He then retired to buffalo, and became a leader to the city and its unique life. He became the first chancellor of the university of buffalo. Fillmore's wife, Abigail, developed pneumonia and died on March 30, 1853. In 1858, Fillmore married Caroline Carmichael McIntosh. He then suffered a stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body on February 13, 1874. Then suffered another and was impossible for him to recover, and died on March 8, 1874, and was buried at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, New York.
The Whigs nominated Tyler for Vice President in 1840, hoping for support from southern states'-righters who could not stomach Jacksonian Democracy. The slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" implied flag-waving nationalism plus a dash of southern sectionalism (2nd source in bibliography). While he was in office the president, President Harrison, died and Tyler moved up into presidency. Tyler apparently did a terrible job as president. After Tyler vetoed a bill about creating a national bank the Whigs expelled him from their party and all of his cabinet resigned but one. A year later he vetoed a tariff and the first impeachment for a president was proposed.
Henry moved to Lexington, Kentucky in November 1797. He quickly gained a reputation for his legal skills. His clients would pay him with land and horses. After awhile he owned a few town lots and the...
Jackson grew up in North Carolina, not having very much money at all, or even a family to lean on. So, at the age of twenty-one, he made the decision to head to Tennessee and start a new life. There, he became a successful lawyer, and also became a slave owner. He was first recognized when he won the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. It was a sight to see and he started to become popular because going into that battle, he was considered the underdog against the British. He also met a girl named Rachel Donelson. Rachel was separating from her previous husband when she and Jackson met. When the divorce was final, Rachel and Andrew Jackson married. In March of 1829 he was chosen to be the President of the United States of America. He had a little difficulty during the elections, because many thought that he and Rachel had gotten married before the divorce was final. In the end, he was still elected. Jackson’s attitude was almost rotten.
FILLMORE, Millard, thirteenth president of the United States, born in the township of Locke (now Summerhill), Cayuga County, New York, 7 February 1800; died in Buffalo, New York, 7 March 1874. The name of Fillmore is of English origin, and at different periods has been variously written. Including the son of the ex-president, the family can be traced through six generations, and, as has been said of that of Washington, its history gives proof "of the lineal and enduring worth of race." The first of the family to appear in the New World was a certain John Fillmore, who, in a conveyance of two acres of land dated 24 November 1704, is described as a " mariner of Ipswich," Massachusetts.
In his speech, Frederick Douglass made it clear that he believed that the continued toleration and support of slavery from both a religious and legal standpoint was utterly absurd when considering the ideals and principles advocated by America’s forefathers. He began by praising the American framers of the Constitution, an...
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 ...
William McKinley went through a lot in a lifetime of 58 years old. When he first started his political career, he was elected to the House of Representatives in a heavily Democratic country, even though he was a Republican. People voted for him for his nice personality and was even respected by opposing politicians. Before, McKinley was a soldier in the Civil War. The Civil War alone was an awful experience, but the sadness of his assassination was dreadful. As President McKinley was shaking hands with supporters, Leon Czolgosz was getting ready to do something that will shake America. When McKinley reached out to shake Czolgosz’s hand, he shot two bullets, one deflected...
He took the that win and became Vice President for 31 days until becoming president. During presidency he was sadly taken out of the whig party, but he kept on trucking. John Tyler had a lot of accomplishments during presidency to. He passed the log cabin bill which allowed people to claim land before it was for sale and only pay $1.25 per acre later on. This helped expand the country and allowed the west to settle. Another accomplishment he had was he worked for the annexation of texas so it could become part of the country. The biggest thing that he did was solve the canadian border dispute. He did this by having the Webster-Ashburton treaty. In addition to all of the wonderful things he did in his term Florida became a state. His family and friends are very thankful that he was able to make a difference in the world.
Andrew Jackson like many people at the time started from humble struggling beginnings. He was born into poverty in March 15, 1767, in Waxhaw, South Carolina. His family were Immigrants of Ireland, who moved to Waxhaw with his brother Hugh and Roberts preceding his
He was a very committed abolitionist until his death in May 6th in 1862. He saw slavery as a moral mistake and even called it a “Civil Disobedience”.
Grant was born on April 27, 1822 (Ulysses, Web). When Grant was growing up he attended schools in Georgetown, Ohio. When he wasn’t at school, he was working on his family farm. He loved playing with the horses. Grants father, Jesse Root Grant was born January 23, 1794 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Jesse Grant made a great deal of money as a tanner. Ulysses hated helping his father on the tanning line. In May of 1839, Grant headed from Ohio to go to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. When Grant was registered, his name was miss wrote. He was registered under the name Ulysses S Grant. He ended up going by this name. After four years, he graduated from West Point on July 1, 1843 and was commissioned a Brevet Second Lieutenant. Grant graduated 21st out of 39 in his class. He was then stationed to a fourth infantry in St. Louis Jefferson Barracks. Here is where he meets his future wife, Julia (Ulysses, Web). After Grants honeymoon, he is reassigned to Sackets Harbor, New York. At this point, Grant had become bored with tediousness of peacetime army. He did however thoroughly enjoyed playing cards, racing his horse, Cicotte, and taking Julia to dances. Grant...
The seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was born on March 17, 1767 in Waxhaw, South Carolina. Growing up, he was educated in an “old field school” in South Carolina and at the age of 13, joined the army as a courier boy. After the American Revolutionary War, Jackson found himself as an orphan. Both of Jackson’s brothers and mother had either succumbed to death during the war or illnesses that they could not overcome, leaving Jackson at the age of 14 to live with relatives. After studying law in North Carolina, Jackson was admitted to the bar in 1787 and practiced until he became solicitor for present day Tennessee. In 1788 he moved to Nashville and became a prominent lawyer. After the Panic of 1795, which ended the prospering business boom after the American Revolution, Jackson was left with his land, naming it The Hermitage. Jackson lived as a cotton planter with a handful of slaves, in-between the business of his political endeavors. After marrying Rachel Donelson in 1791, they would later remarry in 1794 after finding that her first marriage to someone else was not legally ended. This would later be ammunition to his opposition who claimed Rachel to be a bigamist and him a wife stealer.
Jefferson lived at Shadwell for a few years until the family moved to Tuckahoe. Jefferson was the oldest of his six sisters and one brother. Jefferson's father moved the family to Tuckahoe to take care of the children orphaned by his best friend. Around the age of 17 while on the way to college, Jefferson met a man by the name of Patrick Henry. The two became close friends and Henry called on Jefferson to help him get a license to be become a lawyer. Jefferson became Dr. William Small's, a Mathematic professor, every day cohort. Small introduced Jefferson to two of his closest associates, George Wythe and Governor Francis Fauquier. The four men created a quartet and Jefferson claims he owes a vast majority of his education to these three men. After finishing college in 1762, Jefferson studied law with Wythe and noticed growing tension between America and Great Britain. Jefferson was admitted to the bar in 1767. In 1769, Jefferson became a member of the legislature where he first tried for the emancipation of slaves. At his home in Shadwell, he designed and supervised the building of his home, Monticello, on a nearby hill. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. Jefferson met Martha Skelton, a wealthy widow of 23, in 1770 and married her in 1772. They settled in Monticello and had one son and five daughters. Only two of his children, Martha and Mary, survived until maturity. Mrs. Martha Jefferson died in 1782.
...nows that slavery would have ripped our great country into two sides, one for slavery and one against slavery. He knew that our county would not have survived it we had slavery in it and through his speech he shows it.
Nathaniel met the love of his life, Sophia Amelia Peabody in 1838 and engaged to her only a year