His biographer, Paul Finkelman, suggested that after being under others' thumbs all his life, Fillmore enjoyed the independence of his East Aurora practice.[26] Millard and Abigail wed on February 5, 1826. They had two children, Millard Powers Fillmore (1828–1889) and Mary Abigail Fillmore (1832–1854).[27]

Buffalo politician[edit]
Other members of the Fillmore family were active in politics and government in addition to Nathaniel's service as a justice of the peace.[c] Millard also became interested in politics, and the rise of the Anti-Masonic Party in the late 1820s provided his entry.[30]

Millard Fillmore helped build this house in East Aurora, New York, and lived there from 1826 to 1830.
External video Tour of Millard Fillmore House Museum, East Aurora, New York, August 19, 1995, C-SPAN
Many Anti-Masons were opposed to the presidential candidacy of General Andrew Jackson, who was a Mason. Fillmore was a delegate to the New York convention that endorsed President John Quincy Adams for re-election and also served at two Anti-Masonic conventions in the summer of 1828.[4] At the conventions, Fillmore and one of the early political bosses, the newspaper editor Thurlow Weed, met and impressed each other.