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Franklin Pierce
President of the United States from 1853 to 1857
This article is about the president of the United States. For other people with the same name, see Franklin Pierce (disambiguation).
Franklin Pierce | |
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Portrait by Mathew Brady, c. 1855–65 | |
| In office March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857 | |
| Vice President | |
| Preceded by | Millard Fillmore |
| Succeeded by | James Buchanan |
| In office March 4, 1837 – February 28, 1842 | |
| Preceded by | John Page |
| Succeeded by | Leonard Wilcox |
| In office March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837 | |
| Preceded by | Joseph Hammons |
| Succeeded by | Jared W. Williams |
| In office January 5, 1831 – January 2, 1833 | |
| Preceded by | Samuel C. Webster |
| Succeeded by | Charles G. Atherton |
| In office January 7, 1829 – January 2, 1833 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Hiram Monroe |
| Born | (1804-11-23)November 23, 1804 Hillsborough, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Died | October 8, 1869(186 • BackgroundLow politics and high literature would have seemed to have met for the first time in American life in September, 1852, when the first copies of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s campaign biography of Franklin Pierce rolled off the presses of Ticknor, Reed and Fields in Boston [see Pierce inscribed copy to Butterfield, October 16, 1852]. In the seven weeks that remained before the general election, the publishers produced more copies of the Life of Franklin Pierce than of any previous book in the firm’s history, and made exhaustive efforts to sell the work nationally – but as this letter evinces, the subject of the biography, presidential candidate Franklin Pierce, was not satisfied. Upset that he is hearing that the book has yet to arrive in the West – St. Louis, Missouri – Pierce tells Ticknor what he is sure the publisher knows: with the election a month away, the West and Southwest need to be “liberally supplied” with “Hawthorne • Franklin Pierce: Life Before the PresidencyBorn on November 23, 1804, Franklin Pierce, though by no means wealthy, had more advantages than most young boys in rural New Hampshire. His father, Benjamin Pierce, had led the local militia to victories in the American Revolution, and as a result, he enjoyed a status in the area of Hillsborough that gave him influence in local politics. Both he and his wife Anna Kendrick's families had been in America since the early Puritan settlements of the 1620s. Like other ambitious parents, Benjamin and Anna wanted their eight children to have a better education than their own. Franklin attended local schools until age twelve when he was sent to private academies. At fifteen, he entered Bowdoin College in Maine where he made many friends, including a budding young writer named Nathaniel Hawthorne. At first, young Franklin enjoyed the social life at Bowdoin so much that his schoolwork took second priority. Soon he was last in his class. He grad |