Franklin Pierce (November 23 1804 - October 8 1869) was an American politician and the fourteenth President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. He is to date the only president from New Hampshire and was the first president born in the nineteenth century. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" (a Northerner with Southern sympathies) who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Wikipedia
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... Notes End The Life of Franklin Pierce , 1852 By Nathaniel Hawthorne , 1804-1864 Preface THE AUTHOR of this memoir--being so little of a politician that he scarcely feels ... www.eldritchpress.org/nh/fppf.html
Franklin Pierce became President at a time of apparent tranquility. The United States, by virtue of the Compromise of 1850, seemed to have weathered its sectional storm. By pursuing the recommendations of southern advisers, Pierce--a New Englander--hope www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fp14.html