Fifteen Children
John Tyler has a LOT of children, 15 to be exact, in case you didn’t know. As a result, he is the president with the most children! They were born between 1815 and 1860 and were the children of two separate marriages. Letitia Tyler, his first wife, gave birth to his first eight children, and Julia Gardiner, his second wife, gave birth to his last seven.
Fifteen Children
Millard Fillmore – 149
Before the Whig Party was disbanded, Millard Fillmore was its president. He was born into an impoverished household and ascended through the ranks of the government to become Vice President during Zachary Taylor’s reign. Fillmore was elected president after the incumbent president died of cholera in 1850. Following Taylor’s death, all of the White House cabinet members resigned, leaving Fillmore to reconstruct the White House from the bottom up. He signed the 1850 Compromise to try to prevent tension between the North and the South from 1850 to 1853, but he failed. He also assisted in the establishment of contact with Japan, which was still isolated at the time. Japan allowed American ships to dock in the country under his reign.
Millard Fillmore
