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ARTICLES RELATED TO Franklin Pierce - Cabinet | | | |  Franklin Pierce - Cabinet: Encyclopedia II - Franklin Pierce - Early lifePierce was born in 1804 in a log cabin near Hillsborough, New Hampshire, part of the Transcendental Generation. The site of his birth is now under Lake Franklin Pierce. Pierce's father was Benjamin Pierce, a frontier farmer who became a Revolutionary War soldier, state militia general, and two-time governor of New Hampshire. His mother was Anna Kendrick. Pierce had six older and two younger siblings, four brothers and three sisters.
Pierce attended school at Hillsborough Center and moved to the Hancock Academy in Hancock at the age of ...
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| | | | Franklin Pierce - Cabinet: Encyclopedia II - Franklin Pierce - Legacy Places named after President Pierce:
Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, New Hampshire
Franklin Pierce School District in Tacoma, Washington
Pierce County, Washington
The Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire
Mt. Pierce in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, New Hampshire
Pierce and Barbara Bush share a common ancestor, thus President George W. Bush is not only related to Pierce, but in some photos (as with the one on this page) there is an obse ...
See also:Franklin Pierce, Franklin Pierce - Early life, Franklin Pierce - Political career, Franklin Pierce - Mexican War, Franklin Pierce - Election of 1852, Franklin Pierce - Presidency, Franklin Pierce - Retirement, Franklin Pierce - Scholarly Secondary Sources, Franklin Pierce - Legacy, Franklin Pierce - Cabinet, Franklin Pierce - Supreme Court appointments, Franklin Pierce - Major legislation signed Read more here: » Franklin Pierce: Encyclopedia II - Franklin Pierce - Legacy |
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| | | | Franklin Pierce - Cabinet: Encyclopedia II - Franklin Pierce - Presidency Pierce served as president from March 4, 1853, to March 4, 1857. Two months before he took office, shortly after boarding a train in Boston, president-elect Pierce and his family were trapped in a derailed car when it rolled over an embankment near Andover, Massachusetts. Pierce and his wife survived and were merely shaken up, but they watched as their 11-year-old son Benjamin ("Bennie") was crushed to death in the train disaster. Grief-stricken, Pierce entered the presidency nervously exhausted. The family had already lost two children to t ...
See also:Franklin Pierce, Franklin Pierce - Early life, Franklin Pierce - Political career, Franklin Pierce - Mexican War, Franklin Pierce - Election of 1852, Franklin Pierce - Presidency, Franklin Pierce - Retirement, Franklin Pierce - Scholarly Secondary Sources, Franklin Pierce - Legacy, Franklin Pierce - Cabinet, Franklin Pierce - Supreme Court appointments, Franklin Pierce - Major legislation signed Read more here: » Franklin Pierce: Encyclopedia II - Franklin Pierce - Presidency |
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| | | | Franklin Pierce - Cabinet: Encyclopedia II - Franklin Pierce - Election of 1852 The Democratic Party nominated Pierce as a "dark horse" candidate during the Democratic National Convention of 1852. The convention assembled on June 12 in Baltimore, Maryland, with four competing contenders—Stephen A. Douglas, William Marcy, James Buchanan and Lewis Cass—for the nomination. Most of those who had left the party with Martin Van Buren to form the Free Soil Party had returned. Prior to the vote to determine the nominee, a party platform was adopted, opposing any further "agitation" over the slavery issue and supporting the Compromise of 1850 in ...
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| | | | Franklin Pierce - Cabinet: Encyclopedia II - Franklin Pierce - Political career Pierce began his political career in 1828, when he was elected to the lower house of the New Hampshire General Court, the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He served in the House from 1829 to 1833, and as Speaker from 1832 to 1833. Pierce was elected as a Democrat to the 23rd and 24th Congresses(March 4, 1833–March 4, 1837). He was only 27 years old, the youngest representative at the time.
He was elected by the New Hampshire General Court as a Democrat to the United States Senate, serving from March 4, 1837, to February 28, 1842, when he resigned. He was chairman of the U.S. Se ...
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