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Informative Speech: President Millard Fillmore And Chester A. Arthur

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Ashley Conrey Informative Speech Working Outline INTRODUCTION: I. Everyone in the United States of America knows about George Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR and Abraham Lincoln. But do you know of Millard Fillmore, our nation’s 13th president? Or how about Chester Alan Arthur, our 21st president? II. According to Times Magazine, Fillmore and Arthur are among America’s top ten most forgotten about presidents, along with Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James Buchanan, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley, Warren G. Harding and Herbert Hoover. Although I’m not sure how Hoover can be forgotten, with his Hoovervilles during the Great Depression. However, all presidents, despite their impact on our memory, are important …show more content…

I would like to share with you, the impacts of President Millard Fillmore and Chester A. Arthur. BODY: I. To follow chronological order, I will first be informing you on Millard Fillmore. a. Millard Fillmore was born into an extreme poverty on January 7, 1800 in Lock Township, New York. His family was so poor that at age 15 he was put to work with a cloth maker to help provide. Two years later, at the age of 17 he decided to move to New Hope, New York and educate himself. He later attended the New Hope Academy, where he met Abigail Powers, his future wife who he would wed in 1826. b. After working as a lawyer, Fillmore served 3 terms in the New York State Assembly starting in 1828—before being elected into the House of Representatives in 1832. According to the Biography.com Editors, “during this time, Fillmore supported the protective tariff and eliminating the slave trade between the states.” c. He would then go on to join the Whig party, resign from the House and run for governor of New York. His campaign failed him and so he went on to establish the University at Buffalo in 1846. The next year, he was elected to be chief financial officer of New York …show more content…

In 1848, he ran against Zachary Taylor for presidency. He lost but was elected as Vice President. However, he became president in July of 1850 when Taylor unexpectedly died and his cabinet resigned. e. According to Biography.com, “In foreign policy, President Millard Fillmore dispatched Commodore Perry to "open" Japan to western trade and worked to keep the Hawaiian Islands out of European hands. He also refused to back an invasion of Cuba by adventurous Southerners who wanted to expand slavery into the Caribbean.” He also supported the Fugitive Slave Act, and because of these actions, he was not favored by the public and wasn’t nominated for re-election. f. Throughout the 1850’s, the Whig party began to fade out, and Fillmore refused to join the up and coming Republican Party. He then returned to Buffalo, New York, where he would die of a stroke on March 8, 1874. II. Eight presidents later, Chester Alan Arthur, or “Chet” would be elected into office. a. He was born on October 5, 1829 in North Fairfield, Vermont, the second son to Malvina Stone Arthur and Reverend William Arthur, an Irish

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