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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 ...

During America’s antebellum era, there was an enduring friendship that flourished between a mediocre president and a celebrated author. Over four decades, Franklin Pierce, America’s 14th commander in ...

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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.