He was awesome he is related to me i think he should be more higher up in the ranks than where he is right now sitting towards the bottom.
I've heard that Barbara Bush is a descendant of Franklin Pierce, which would make George W. Bush his descendant as well, but I've never found confirmation of that.
Franklin Pierce was born on November 23, 1804 and died on October 8, 1869. Franklin Pierce would have been 64 years old at the time of his death.
Franklin Pierce was the fourteenth President of the United States. He was born in 1804, so there was a bicentennial celebration at his birthplace and at his home in Concord m New Hampshire in 2004. He will be 207 on November 23, 2011.
Without Pierce, somebody else would have been the 14th US president . Possibly Kansas and Nebraska would be just one state today. Other than that, I think life today would be as it is.
Yes. probably. His opponent was Winfield Scott, an old Mexican War general. Pierce had been a US Senator and had a good reputation as an honest lawyer in New Hampshire.
The Bill for the Benefit of the Indigent Insane. It would have established asylums for the indigent insane, as well as the blind, deaf, and dumb, via federal land grants to the states.
Franklin Pierce Adams was born on November 15, 1881 and died on March 23, 1960. Franklin Pierce Adams would have been 78 years old at the time of death or 133 years old today.
Pierce was drafted by his party to run after they could not agree on any of the four front-runners for the nomination. He was a loyal party man and felt it was his duty to serve, but probably did not dream that he would be nominated when he allowed his name to be put into for consideration.
Edgar Allan Poe was a great friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne. New Answer: Well, Poe was not really a friend of Hawthorne. You might be thinking of Franklin Pierce, a college buddy and drinking partner, who had Hawthorne write a very flattering biography of him while he was running for President. Pierce was elected, some say primarily on the strength of Hawthorne's endorsement of him. Nate was a big literary star during the 1840s to 1860s, and his big boost to Franklin Pierce, an otherwise completely undistinguished politician, would be like having Tom Clancy recommend Dennis Kuchinich for President and write a book about him.
Blunt to grind it while carnivors would have sharp to pierce
FDR is a president. You would have heard of him as Franklin D. Roosavelt.
He was reportedly an avid fisherman. I would assume that he did some fishing after he left office.