Millard Powers Fillmore

Millard Powers Fillmore (April 25, 1828 – November 15, 1889) was an American lawyer. He was the eldest of two children, and only son, of U.S. President Millard Fillmore and his first wife, Abigail Powers.

Career He studied law in his father's office and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1849. He served as his father's private secretary during the latter's presidency. After practicing law in Buffalo, New York as the partner of E. Carleton Sprague, he was appointed a federal court clerk.

Personal life After the death of his mother in 1853 at the age of 55, his father married Caroline Carmichael McIntosh; a union which Millard Powers Fillmore reportedly never accepted. Following his father's death in 1874 at age 74, he engaged in a bitter battle with his stepmother over the terms of his late father's will, which young Millard won. Fillmore was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo. His will directed that all his family correspondence (including that with his father) be burned, the motive for which was the subject of much speculation.