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Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States and served from March 4, 1853 to March 4, 1857.
233 Questions
What role did Franklin Pierce play in the revolutionary war?
Franklin Pierce was born in 1804, some 20 years after the Revolutionary War ended so his role was quite minor. ( His father was a company commander in the war, fought at Bunker Hill ,and Saratoga, and served with Washington at Valley Forge. )
Franklin Pierce three important events during his term as president?
Uhm..... like well before office i guess. Franklin Pierce spoke at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Washington Aqueduct on November 1853 idk da date o.o srry ._.
Why did northern and southern Democrats support Franklin Pierce?
The southerners supported Franklin because they trusted him in the issue of slavery. The northerners supported Franklin because he opened a railroad to the west coast , helping revive the slavery controversy.
Did Franklin Pierce grow up rich poor or middle class?
His family was middle class moving to upper middle class.
What party did Franklin Pierce belong to?
Pierce was a member of the Democratic Party founded by Andrew Jackson. He was called the "Young Hickory of the the Granite Hills" , a reference to Jackson (Old Hickory) and the mountains of New Hampshire where Pierce lived. Pierce did a great deal to build up the state organization in New Hampshire for the Democrats. Polk was grateful enough to offer him the position of attorney general but he refused it.
Franklin Pierce was a member of the Democratic Party.
he was gay :)
Franklin Pierce was a member of the Democratic Party.
What was Franklin Pierce's personal info?
Time line for Franklin Pierce's life
- 1806 (Nov. 23) born near Hillsborough, NH, son of Benjamin Pierce and Anna Kendrick
- 1818 enrolled at Hancock, NH Academy
- 1820 transferred to Francestown NH Academy
- 1820 entered Bowdoin College
- 1824 graduated from Bowdoin
- 1827 admitted to the bar
- 1829 elected to NH state legislature
- 1831 speaker of NH state house
- 1832 elected to US Congress
- 1834 married Jane Means Appleton
- 1836 son Frank, Jr. died 2 days after birth
- 1837 elected to US Senate
- 1839 son Frank Robert born
- 1841 son Benjamin born
- 1842 resigns Senate seat returns to law practice in Concord , NH
- 1843 so Frank Robert dies of typhus
- 1846 goes off to war with Mexico
- 1848 returns from war
- 1852 elected US president
- 1853 son Benjamin killed in train wreck; takes office as President
- 1857 leaves office returns home
- 1863 wife dies
- 1869 (April 8) dies at home
