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I have to question the term "indentured servant." I found what I think are the two Presidents, but the only sites I found the term "indentured servant" were trivia sites, and most of them used identical phrasing, which usually indicates a common source. None of the educational sites use that term. Both Fillmore and A. Johnson were apprenticed by their fathers, but that is not really indentured servitude. At least one of them, Johnson, learned a trade that way, as a tailor, and actually made a suit for another politician (Senator or Governor, possibly from Tennessee)
(Interestingly enough, all the trivia sites I saw said Johnson, not Fillmore, as the one who bought his way out of the apprenticeship. A PBS site has the correct information, that it was as Bedstor says, Fillmore.)
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