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Millard Fillmore seems closest to satisfying this description. He got his first opportunity to go to real school when he was 19. Before that, he had had some sporadic instruction but had a very small vocabulary and was surely not a skilled writer or reader.

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Q: Which president could barely read or write when he started school at the age 18?
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