Franklin pierce

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2. Basic Information • Born on a frontier farm on November 23, 1804 in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, Franklin Pierce was the second son of Benjamin and Ann Kendrick Pierce. • He had four brothers and three sisters. His father, a militia general served in the American Revolution

3. He entered Bowdoin College at the age of 15. He graduated in 1824. In 1826 he entered law school in Northampton, Massachusetts. • On November 10, 1834, Pierce married Jean Means Appleton, daughter of a former president of Bowdoin College. They had three sons, two who died in childhood (Died of Typhus). and the third son was killed in a railroad accident at the age of 11.

4. Becoming the president • He became the Democratic nominee for President in 1852 after balloting did not produce a winner he was the 14th president. • In 1836 he was elected to the US Senate by the New Hampshire legislature. When he took his seat the following year he was 32 years old, the youngest member of the senate. • In 1842 Pierce resigned his seat and returned to New Hampshire to practice law.

5. In 1842 Pierce resigned his seat and returned to New Hampshire to practice law. • November election. Pierce received 254 electoral votes, and General Winfield Scott, his Whig opponent, only 42. The Democrats carried every state except Massachusetts, Vermont, Kentucky and Tennessee. No president since James Monroe had received such a vote.

6. Died • Franklin Pierce spent his last years in New Hampshire in virtual seclusion and died in Concord on October 8, 1869. • Jane Means Appleton She was 28 and he was 29 years old. She died on December 2, 1863.

7. http://www.franklinpierce.org/ • http://www.historycentral.com/bio/presidents/pierce.html • http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/History/presidents/Presidents_14_Pierce.htm