What were 5 major events of Franklin Pierce?

Answer 1

• 1805 born in Cayuga County, New Hampshire
• 1824 graduated from Bowdoin College
• 1833 elected to US Congress
• 1834 married Sarah Childress
• 1836 elected to US Senate
• 1846-1848 served as a general in the Mexican War
• 1852 elected president of the US
• 1865 baptized as preparation for joining the Episcopalian church
• 1869 died at his home in Concord, NH

Answer 2

!855 was Pierce's third year as President and the first year for the new Congress. Midterm elections had produced a great change in Congress. Pierce's party lost 73 seats to leave them with 84 out of 252, The Whigs dropped by 11 to 60. The new Know-Nothings (American ) Party won 62 and the new Republican Party won 46.

The Democrats and Know-Nothings formed a coalition but even together they did not have a majority. The Know-Nothings swept the spring state election in New Hampshire.

In July the improperly elected Kansas legislature convened and passed pro-slavery law and by November large scale violence known as bleeding Kansas began to break out. Pierce largely recovered from malaria and decided to try for re-election.