Franklin Pierce

Because the government had to put the issue aside when the slavery issues came up.

You should be able to find a Franklin Pierce dollar coin .

Zenas Caldwell and Nathaniel Hawthorne, the famous author, were close college friends. People who knew Pierce tended to like him and seek his friendship.

Levi Woodbury, who later was a Supreme Court justice, taught him the law.

Josiah Minot was his law partner. Congressman Charles Peaslee was a staunch supporter and friend. Lawyer Sidney Webster was a long-time friend and served as his secretary ( like the present day chief of staff) while he was President.

There is no Franklin Pierce library like recent Presidents have. Pierce apparently destroyed most of his White House papers . His house in Concord , New Hampshire and his boyhood home in Hillsborough, NH have been maintained and are open to visitors. The New Hampshire Historical in Concord, NH has a library devoted to NH history `and its director is a recognized authority on Franklin Pierce.

People in general rarely think about Franklin Pierce. He served only one term as US president more than 150 years ago and his term was a prelude to the great Civil war that followed soon after. Historians that like to judge presidents give him low marks.

I do not know of any awards Pierce received. He was given the honor of making a speech at his college graduation.

Yes, he does have a monument named Franklin Pierce Monument. It consists features a statue of him and is found on the state capitol grounds grounds at Concord, NH. There is also a monument where he is buried.

There was little difference in the platforms of the two major parties. Both pledged to support the Compromise of 1850 and work for national unity. The campaign was based mostly on the strengths of the candidates. The big issue was slavery- allow it or abolish it, but neither major party made that a campaign issue.

Andover, New Hampshire was the location of the train accident that killed young Benjamin Pierce.

he always liked to fish. He may have done some ice-skating and sledding.

Franklin Pierce left office in 1857, at the end of his term in office. He was not nominated for reelection in 1856 and was thus not reelected as President to a second term. While his presidency is considered one of the least effective, he did not leave office prematurely.

He was fairly successful , A treaty was signed with Mexico to annex the strip of land known as the Gadsden Purchase. A trade treaty was signed with Japan. A dispute with Austria involving an American accused of espionage was settled favorably.

The big failure was his attempt to purchase Cuba from Spain which ended with the brouhaha known as the Ostend Manifesto.

You realize that there was no telegraph or telephone connection with Europe or Japan, so Pierce was dependent on his ministers to handle the actual negotiations.

While he was very ill, she assisted by organizing and weeding out trivial matters that did not need his attention. She also represented him at social gatherings to cover up for his illness.

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Pierce instigated an attempt to buy Cuba from Spain. His ministers in Europe eventually produced what became known as the Ostend Manifesto which demanded that Spain either sell Cuba to the US or lose it to a war with the US. After this document became public there was so much public outrage that he had to formally repudiate it. Besides causing a domestic and international uproar over the suggestion that the US would provoke a war to gain territory, Cuba was looked on as a potential slave state.

Benjamin Pierce was Franklin Pierce's dad.

You can , if you into any reasonably large library and do a catalog subject search for Franklin Pierce. You perform a similar on-line search at Amazon at see pictures of book covers. or, you can find short on-line biographies by googling Franklin Pierce.

He hoped to mute these conflicts by enforcing the Compromise of !850 and pushing the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska. Unfortunately , neither worked.

The Compromise of 1850 contains a provision for a stricter fugitive law and this enforcement provoked abolitionists to new efforts. The Kansas-Nebraska act led to violence in Kansas and polarized the pro-slave and anti-slave faction ever further.

The picture you are referring to was taken when he was about to leave office. I do not know the reason for it, but it was not a habit. I would guess that is was the photographer's idea. Maybe he thought the pose looked statesmanlike a la Napoleon. In Napoleon's day or before, the hand in jacket pose was a classical pose, rather like having a hand on one's pocket for a relaxed look. The right hand is actually tucked into his vest, not his shirt.

The Pierces came from New Hampshire. Franklin Pierce grew up in Hillsborough and spent most of his married life in Concord.

Yes, except for grade school. The states did not offer much public education in those days.

Franklin's father was a soldier and politician. He also ran a tavern on occasion . He served two terms as governor of NH . His mother kept house and raised her 7 children.

He believed that compromise was sometimes necessary in a republic. He was willing to look for mutual concessions in the conflicts over slavery.

It was in the Battle of Contreras that his leg injury caused him to pass out. I think he hurt it the day before the battle. he re-injured the leg at Chorobusco during a pursuit operation