Born: November 23, 1804, Hillsborough, New Hampshire... Pierce's strong support for the Comrpromise of 1850 appeared to indicate that he was not going to press the issue of slavery. With the country ...

In his lifetime, President Franklin Pierce was written off as a failure. And through the years, scholars have dismissed Pierce, who served from 1853 to 1857, as a weak, ineffectual leader who was ...

WEBVTT NEVER LOOKED BETTER. THIS HEROIC STATUE IS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE’S ONLY UNITED STATES PRESIDENT, FRANKLIN PIERCE, STANDING LIKE A CONQUERING HERO HERE ON THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE GROUNDS OF THE ...

Col. Richard Oberman, medical commander and deputy director of Joint Staff at New Hampshire Army National Guard, moves the wreath onto the gravesite of President Franklin Pierce at the Old North ...

Like many historians, Holt considers Franklin Pierce’s administration (1853-1857) to be so inept that perhaps the greatest praise is that the succeeding administration, James Buchanan’s, was worse.