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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Pierce, Franklin
14. His exact presidential dates are March 4, 1853-March 3, 1857.
New Hampshire. He was born Novemeber 23, 1804 in Hillsborough, NH.
Bowdoin. He was a 1824 graduate of this university and became a lawyer.
Jane Appleton. Jane Appleton's father was a reverend and the president of Bowdoin college. Franklin and Jane Pierce married in 1834.
William King. Pierce and King won on the Democratic ticket of the Presidential race of 1852. King was from Alabama, and died in office as Vice-President without being replaced.
| Pierce's father Benjamin served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. What rank did he achieve by the end of the war? | Franklin Pierce
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lieutenant. Benjamin Pierce fought at Bunker Hill and Saratoga and spent the infamous winter with the troops at Valley Forge. He left the army in 1784 as a company commander.
| Pierce was the first US president to be born in New Hampshire. In what New Hampshire city was Pierce born? | Franklin Pierce
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Hillsborough. Pierce was born on November 23, 1804 in Hillsborough, New Hampshire on the banks of the Contoocook River.
Bowdoin. In 1824, Pierce graduated from Bowdoin College 5th in a class of 14.
Contreras. Pierce was injuried during the battle of Contreras when his horse paniced, driving Pierce against the pommel of his saddle. Pierce passed out due to the pain.
| On what ballot did Pierce win the 1852 Democratic nomination for president? | Franklin Pierce
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49th. Pierce did not even record any votes for president during the 1852 Democratic Convention in Baltimore till the 35th ballot when Virginia casts their votes for him as a compromise candidate. Support increased for him on every ballot after until he won the nomination on the 49th ballot.
| Who was the Whig party candidate that opposed Pierce in the 1852 general election? | Franklin Pierce
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Winfield Scott. Winfield Scott was the commander of US forces during the Mexican War. He won the Whig nomination on the 53rd ballot, defeating President Millard Fillmore.
| What noted 19th century author/poet was a close friend of Pierce and even contributed a campaign biography to the Democrats? | Franklin Pierce
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Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne and Pierce met each other while attending Bowdoin College and remain friends the rest of their lives. In fact, Pierce had taken Hawthorne to the White Mountains in 1864 in an effort to help Hawthorne regain his health. Pierce was, in fact, in the bedroom next door when Hawthorne died.
| How many states did Pierce's opponent win in the 1852 presidential election? | Franklin Pierce
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4. Scott won Kentucky, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Vermont in the election, losing to Pierce in the electoral college 252-42.
| Where was Pierce's vice-president William King sworn into office? | Franklin Pierce
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Havana, Cuba. At the time of the election, King was terminally ill with tuberculosis and travelled to Havana to seek treatment. Congress passed special legislation allowing King to take the oath of office in Havana, which he did. He then returned to his home in Alabama, where he died one month after being sworn in.
| What tragedy happened to Pierce between his election and swearing-in as president? | Franklin Pierce
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death of his only remaining son. Pierce's only remaining son, Benjamin, was the only victim of a train wreck that occured on January 6, 1853, shortly after the train had left Andover, Massachusetts for Concord, New Hampshire, where the Pierces were going to attend a funeral for a family friend.
| Future Confederate States of America president Jefferson Davis served in Pierce's cabinet as war secretary. Who replaced Davis in Pierce's cabinet as secretary of war? | Franklin Pierce
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no one. Davis served as war secretary during the entirety of the Pierce administration. Matter of fact, there was not one change in any cabinet position throughout Pierce's entire term in office.
| The United States, during the Pierce administration, acquired 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico which would eventually become the southern parts of Arizona and New Mexico. The purchase would be known as the Gadsden Purchase, after James Gadsden, who negotiated the purchase. What office did Gadsden hold at the time? | Franklin Pierce
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US minister to Mexico. Gadsden was the president of the South Carolina Railroad Company from 1840 to 1850 and promoted the construction of a transcontinental railroad by a southern route. Gadsden was appointed US minister to Mexico in 1853 by Pierce to acquire the neccessary land. Gadsden died in 1858.
| What senator sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska act in 1854 during Pierce's administration, which repealed the Missouri Compromise and sought to permit the settlers of those territories to decide for themselves if they would permit slavery? | Franklin Pierce
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Stephen Douglas. Douglas was the Illinois senator famous for his debates with Abraham Lincoln in 1858. He was the Democratic nominee for president in 1860, losing in a rematch to Lincoln. Douglas died in 1861 and is buried in Chicago.
| In 1855, the Pierce administration recognized the government of William Walker, a proslavery American that led a bunch of mercenaries to overthrow the government of what Central American country? | Franklin Pierce
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Nicaragua. Walker served as president of Nicaragua from 1856 to 1857. Eventually, he fell out of favor with the US and the US navy arranged his removal from office in 1857. Walker's dream was to unite all the nations of Central America under one government. After one more attempt to acheive his goal in 1860, in Honduras, he was captured by the British Navy who turned him over to Honduras, who then executed him by firing squad.
Ulysses S. Grant. Pierce grew unpopular in the north because of his anti-war stance during the Civil War. Pierce died October 8, 1869 in Concord, New Hampshire. He was given a funeral accorded a former president of the United States. It wasn't until 1914 that the state of New Hampshire erected a statue to Pierce on the capital grounds and it wasn't until 1946 that a granite marker was placed on his grave in the Old North Cemetary in Concord.
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