Franklin Pierce

No- Pierce was not an abolitionist. He was not personally in favor of slavery, but considered the right to keep slaves as something that was part of the agreement that states made when they ratified the US Constitution. He agreed with people like John Adams and Benjamin Franklin who did not like slavery but accepted it as a compromise needed to form the union.

Frankiln Pierce was open, congenial and even-tempered. He liked to socialize and strike up conversations with people. He wanted people to like him and he was sensitive to criticism. He hated to say "no" to people and that trait got him into trouble sometimes.

He was never arrested.

That is true, but in 1853 he ran over a woman with his horse, he wasn't charged because the woman was fortunately unharmed. I have occasionally read that he was fined $20.00 for "reckless driving"(or whatever the charge was back).

When he was 14, he went away to Hancock and Francestown Academies for college preparation. When he was not quite 16, he entered college at Bowdoin in Maine, graduating in four years at 19.
He did just enough to get by his first two years of college, but found new friends his third year, applied himself to his studies and graduated 5th in his class of 14.

Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. His presidency was marked by a divisive issue of slavery, particularly the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which led to violent conflicts in Kansas. Pierce's handling of these issues further exacerbated tensions leading up to the Civil War. Historically, he is seen as one of the least effective presidents.

I can not find any indication that he played a musical instrument.

Tuition at Bowdoin College was $8.00 per trimester when Pierce went there. There were other fees of about $1.50 and students were fined for missing class or chapel. Room and board was about $2 a week.

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.

Jefferson Davis who went on to become president of the confederacy was Pierce's Secretary of War. Ironically, he put the US army into good shape to fight against the Confederacy a few years later.

The Gadsden Purchase from Mexico was made while Pierce was president.

Pierce defeated General Winfield Scott, the Whig candidate, to win the presidency in 1852.

He won the U. S. Presidential Election of 1852 with 86% of the electoral votes.

No- Pierce lived in New Hampshire.

George H. W. Bush is a reportedly a fifth cousin once removed which means that George W. Bush is a fifth cousins twice removed. (Fifth cousins have a

great-great-great-great-grandparent in common.)

I think Barbara Pierce Bush is also related, so W has two ties to Frank.

Pierce was personally honest and he appointed people to serve him that were honest. He ran a clean administration and encouraged his cabinet members to ferret cheats and incompetents from their departments.

He fought in the Revolutionary War, under George Washington at Valley Forge.

The 14th President of the United States was Franklin Pierce from March 4, 1853 to March 4, 1857. President Pierce was born on November 23, 1804.

Pierce was a Democrat. He ran against General Winfield Scott who ran as a Whig.

Pierce did not go to law school. He learned law by studying with lawyers and then took the bar exam. He did get a bachelor's from Bowdoin College .

He earned a bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College in Brunswick , Maine. I would make an educated guess that it was a Bachelor of Arts degree. ( He went on to read law with three lawyers and passed the bar without a law degree.)

False. He promised to enforce it and he did. ( He said before he was president that he did not like it, but it was the law and was part of a carefully worked out compromise.)

The address of the Franklin Pierce Homestead is: , Hillsborough, NH 03244

Franklin Pierce's real name was Franklin Pierce.

Franklin Pierce's White House Hostess.

No arrest record for this incident has been located.