Franklin Pierce

By: Jordan Farmer

14th President1853-1857DemocratNickname: “Young Hickory of the Granite Hills”Vice President: William KingReligion: Episcopalian

Job Training Born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire in 1804 Attended Bowdoin College After graduation he studied law then entered politics

Political BackgroundAge 24; elected to the New Hampshire legislature

two years later he became its Speaker

During the 1830's he went to Washington

first as a Representative then as a Senator

Military BackgroundResigned from senate to serve in the Mexican War He was later proposed by New Hampshire friends for the Presidential nomination in 1852

Presidential Stylehated changerelied on tradition to steer the government

Earning Southern Respect

Extremely unpopularPolitics seem to favor the South He later opposed Abraham Lincoln’s election and the Emancipation Proclamation

Campaignmainly concerned with promoting national unity by

including all Democratic factions in the Cabinet

strictly adhering to the Compromise of 1850

Election IssuesDemocrats stood more firmly for the Compromise of 1850 than the WhigsWhig candidate General Winfield Scott was suspect in the SouthPierce won the election with a narrow margin of popular votes

General Winfield Scott

Election Issues Cont’dHis hopes for unity were destroyed by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

which repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820

Enacting this law led to a revolt by antislavery Democrats and to the creation of the Republican party

Presidency Signed the Gadsden PurchaseWhich added land from Mexico to the Territory of New Mexico

supported the Fugitive Slave LawsWhich returned run away slaves to their owners

Public LifeHe was not what one could call an inspired military leader

He would often faint when going into battleSome described him as a coward

View of the Constitution

believed that the Constitution was sacred and unchangeableHe said, "If the Compromise measures are not firmly maintained, the Constitution will be trampled in the dust."

Interesting Factswas arrested while in office for running over an old woman with his horse, but his case was dropped due to insufficient evidence in 1853"We Polked you in 1844; we shall Pierce you in 1852.”Each of his three children died before he was president and before reaching adolescenceHe was the first president to memorize his inaugural address and recite it from memory

In Conclusion

Pierce still is the only president ever denied renomination by his partyFranklin Pierce was not a particularly effective President and left office having not change much

AfterwardsFranklin Pierce spent his last years in New Hampshire He died in Concord on October 8, 1869

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