There were no term limits on the presidency when Pierce was President. Pierce made an effort to get the nomination for a second term, but lost and so served only the one term as President.
Yes it was named after the 14th President Franklin Pierce and Fort Pierce is located in Florida. He served in office for four years and had three sons who all died before they could see there dad as President. Franklin was also the first President to have a Christmas Tree in the White House and the youngest president born in the 19th century.
I suppose you could say he was impeached. He was denied the nomination for a second term.
He was a very good trial lawyer. He had an excellent memory and could relate to jury members.
Pierce was an admirer of President Andrew Jackson. Even though he did not particularly want to be president, he must have had been inspired by Andrew Jackson's example of what a president could be.
Yes, Pierce was the surprise , compromise nominee of the 1852 Democratic Convention, chosen when none of the four front-runners could nail down the nomination.
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Yes, Pierce won on his first try. He was probably surprised to be nominated since the race for nomination was between four other men, but none of them could get the required majority so Pierce was put up as a compromise .
He disagreed with Lincoln and made speeches against the Civil War. He thought a truce could worked out and the fighting ended.
Not exactly. In fact by the end of his term, his own party decided that he was un-electable and he could not get a nomination for a second term.
Franklin Pierce led a life of public service, serving as the 14th President of the US , a general for the US army , in both houses of the US Congress as well as in the New Hampshire state House. As a lawyer he did a considerable amount of pro bonowork, taking on cases for clients who could not afford to pay his fees.
Pierce was drafted by his party to run after they could not agree on any of the four front-runners for the nomination. He was a loyal party man and felt it was his duty to serve, but probably did not dream that he would be nominated when he allowed his name to be put into for consideration.
Pierce was admitted to the bar in 1827 and practiced law until he became President in 1953. He took off two years to fight in the Mexican War. He also served 9 years in Congress, but he could do some legal work during that period,