Top 5 First Ladies More Qualified to be President than Hillary Clinton

4.  Abigail Fillmore

Abigail Fillmore’s first role in the life of her future husband was to serve as his teacher. Their lifelong love of books and knowledge was what drew them together.

Born Abigail Powers, the future First Lady was educated at home in her parent’s library, and she excelled to such an extent that she took the post of teacher at a new academy in 1819 when she was twenty years old. Her first pupil was nineteen-year-old Millard Fillmore. Their love of learning eventually blossomed into romance, although they were not married until he was 26 and she was 27.

When Millard Fillmore became the 13th president of the United States in 1850, unlike most First Ladies, Abigail Fillmore left the social duties to her daughter Abby, while she herself selected books for the White House library. She was more interested in the pursuit of knowledge than in being a social butterfly.

A well-educated woman, and the teacher of her own husband, Abigail Fillmore did not choose to intervene in the job of governing the nation in her husband’s place. But if she had run for president herself, she would have been more qualified than Hillary Clinton.