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  • 1805 born in Cayuga County, New Hampshire
  • 1824 graduated from Bowdoin College
  • 1833 elected to US Congress
  • 1834 married Sarah Childress
  • 1836 elected to US Senate
  • 1846-1848 served as a general in the Mexican War
  • 1852 elected president of the US
  • 1865 baptized as preparation for joining the Episcopalian church
  • 1869 died at his home in Concord, NH
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!855 was Pierce's third year as President and the first year for the new Congress. Midterm elections had produced a great change in Congress. Pierce's party lost 73 seats to leave them with 84 out of 252, The Whigs dropped by 11 to 60. The new Know-Nothings (American ) Party won 62 and the new Republican Party won 46.

The Democrats and Know-Nothings formed a coalition but even together they did not have a majority. The Know-Nothings swept the spring state election in New Hampshire.

In July the improperly elected Kansas legislature convened and passed pro-slavery law and by November large scale violence known as bleeding Kansas began to break out. Pierce largely recovered from malaria and decided to try for re-election.

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