Franklin Pierce

The tariff was the only tax of any great importance at that time. Pierce did not make any effort to get the tariff reduced even though the government was running a surplus.

during the Mexican war

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.

The U.S. Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln happened after Franklin Pierce became president but before Andrew Johnson was impeached. Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States and served his term from March 4, 1853 to March 4, 1857. Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States and served his term from April 15, 1865 to April 15, 1869, he was impeached on February 24, 1868. In that decade the U.S. Civil War occurred from 1861-1865.

His childhood was pleasant enough. He had five brothers and three sisters. They lived in the back country but the house was on a main highway. His father was a general in the Revolutionary War , was a local personage and active in politics. He liked to tell war stories to his children and others who would listen. His father was strict but his mother was affectionate and easy-going. He was sent away to boarding school which he did not always enjoy but it provided a good education for its day.

Not much is known about Pierce's childhood because Pierce did not write or talk much about it and nobody tried to write a comprehensive biography of him until after the people who knew him as a child were all dead.

George Washington died many years before Franklin Pierce's wife was born.

Maybe you are thinking of Benjamin Franklin's wife.

The Whig party was the base of the North but were close to splitting in 1852 and many of the them jumped to the new Republican party in the next election because their desire to abolish slavery. Their founders Daniel Webster and John Quincy Adams had recently died. The decision to include support of the Compromise of 1850 with its fugitive slave provision in the parties platform for 1852 meant that Northern Whigs did not work very hard to elect their candidate Scott, unlike the Democrats who already in the majority who were solidly behind their candidate, Pierce.

Moreover, Pierce for the independent voter had much going for him - he was young, nice looking, had experience in the both houses of the US Congress as well as the NH legislature. His father had been a two-term governor and Pierce served as a general in the Mexican War. Pierce was a successful lawyer and had been offered the position of attorney-general of the US by President Polk.

Scott was 66 years old and had never held elected office, he did not have a college degree- his only credential was his military success.

Pierce lived longer. Pierce was almost 65 he died; Arthur was just 57.

Both presidents Bush and maybe Barbara Pierce Bush were distant cousins.

President Millard Fillmore served out the final two years of Zachary Taylor's term when he died in 1852. Pierce was elected in 1854.

This nickname was campaign hype. "Old Hickory" was Andrew Jackson, the founder of the Democratic Party that nominated Pierce. The Granite Hills refer to New Hampshire where Pierce lived.

Pierce was 5' 10"". He weighed around 160 pounds.

No. He also did not wear earrings or nose-rings or have any visible tattoos or dye his hair green.

He was given this nickname in honor of Andrew Jackson, who was known as Old Hickory.

The full nickname was Young Hickory of the Granite Hills, which is where he lived. He was a member of Jackson's party and was young. Other than that, the name was mostly a campaign slogan.

Both parties in 1852 promised to honor the Compromise of 1850 which included a new fugitive slave act designed to ensure the return of runaway slaves and hinder the underground railroad.

Pierce served just one term (1853-1857)

President Pierce's first lady was his wife, Jane Appleton Pierce. She was in deep mourning for her son who was killed just before they moved to Washington, so she did not do much entertaining.

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At the Battle of Contreras, his horse lurched suddenly throwing Pierce hard against the pommel of his saddle and wrenched his knee. He passed out from the pain. ( Political mudslingers said later that he fainted from fright in his first battle.)

The main plank in the Democratic platform of 1852 was to uphold the Compromise of 1850 and Pierce agreed.

No- Pierce was not a Whig. His predecessors Taylor and Fillmore were the last Whig presidents and Pierce's opponent, Winfield Scott was the man to run for President as a Whig.

Dorothea Dix got Congress to pass a bill allotting 40,000 square kilometers of government land to be used to raise money to be given to the states to build and maintain asylums for the insane. She wanted Pierce to sign the bill, but he vetoed it, saying that social services were the responsibility of the states, not the federal government.

Every person no doubt changes history to some extent. Pierce was President of the United States, served in Congress and practiced law for many years. He surely affected some people's lives. As US president, he did not do much that made any clear mark of the progress of events. He went along with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act which turns out badly. In general he was not a strong leader.

yes- he was something of a hero. He fought at Bunker Hill and Saratoga and served under Washington at Valley Forge and was a non-commissioned officer.

After the war, when a peace time militia was created he helped organize it and eventually was made a general.

I do not know what ranking list you are asking about. Usually Pierce is ranked ahead of Buchanan if you only rank presidents who served a full 4 years. He gets low ranking because he did not attempt much of any note and what he favored did not work. Particular failures were the Kansas-Nebraska act and his efforts to annex Cuba.

He was not nominated by his party to run for a second term