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Franklin Pierce's finest moment is not in this song. In his retirement, in his home town of Concord, New Hampshire, it was well known that he was not happy with Mr. Lincoln's conduct of national affairs. Beyond perhaps some malicious talk about him at the post office, though, or surliness from the hired help, Pierce and Concord got on civilly enough. But when the news reached southern New Hampshire that Mr. Lincoln had been killed, the nearest thing at hand to John Wilkes Booth was Franklin Pierce. In a kind of impromptu town meeting, a mob formed in front of Pierce's house, and a new experiment in democracy looked like it might be underway-the first lynching of an ex-president.
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At age 48, Franklin Pierce was the youngest President yet elected, and he would leave the nation divided. In the South fears were high that the western territories would enter the Union as "free" states, giving the North a political advantage. In the North, hatred against European immigrants flared as Pierce defended their rights under the Constitution. But, it was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed settlers to choose whether to allow slavery that would shatter the nation's stability. Pierce stood by his party's extreme pro-slavery line and supported the bill. Armed conflict quickly erupted.
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Franklin Pierce was born in Hillsboro, New Hampshire in 1806. He died in 1869. He was 65 when he died. He went to Bowdon College, in Maine in 1842. He was a Representative and a Senator from New Hampshire. In 1833, he was the youngest Senator.
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Franklin Pierce served as the fourteenth president of the United States from 1853 to 1857. He was the youngest person to be elected president up to that time. A northern Democrat who sought to preserve southern slavery, Pierce's administration proved a failure because he antagonized the growing abolitionist movement by signing the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which gave the two new territories the option of whether to permit slavery. Pierce was unable to win renomination for a second term.
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Franklin Pierce ( November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869 ), was a noted booze hound who somehow "handomed" himself into the American presidency. Known for his studly good looks Pierce's reputation is only a notch above complete crap by having served between Millard Fillmore and James Buchanon. He could drink like a mo-fo and was the first president named Franklin. He ... served in the house, senate and made the big career no-no of expressing support for the Confederacy and then dying before having a chance to spin his way out of the statement.
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Trent Spiner, a Franklin Pierce senior, is editor-in-chief of Pierce Arrow, the campus paper. As student media coordinator for “The Primary Connection” this spring, he has created a network of high school and college media outlets to maximize their effective coverage of the 2008 New Hampshire Primary Election. He is a certified firefighter for the Rindge, NH fire department and a nationally registered Emergency Medical Technician. Spiner has completed internships with the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript of Peterborough NH and with the Edison Group in New York.
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