Who was the presindent in 1855?

Answer 1

Franklin Pierce, from 1853-1857, was one of a line of four incompetent presidents before the civil war (Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan). He was a feel-good candidate for both the north and the south and was liked by almost everyone, but he secretly favored the south. He was pressured into signing the Kansas-Nebraska Act.