What did Franklin Pierce do?

Answer 1

Franklin Pierce was the 14th president of the United States.

A Democrat, he is the only US president from New Hampshire and was the youngest president ever at the time he was elected. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1832, and later moved to the U.S. Senate in 1837. Not so fond of Washington politics and knowing that party policy forbid a second term, he resigned from the Senate in 1842 and returned to New Hampshire to practice law. He turned down political offers and served in the Mexican War, and was eventually made a Brigadier General. In 1852 , much to his surprise, he won the Democratic nomination and the election over the incumbent president. Pierce tried unsuccessfully to promote conciliation between the North and the South over slavery, an issue (the "Kansas Question") that dominated his presidency. and he served only one term.

Time line for Franklin Pierce's life

• 1806 (Nov. 23) born near Hillsborough, NH, son of Benjamin Pierce and Anna Kendrick
• 1818 enrolled at Hancock, NH Academy
• 1820 transferred to Francestown NH Academy
• 1820 entered Bowdoin College
• 1824 graduated from Bowdoin
• 1827 admitted to the bar, began law practice in Hillsborough
• 1829 elected to NH state legislature
• 1831 speaker of NH state house
• 1832 elected to US Congress
• 1834 married Jane Means Appleton
• 1836 son Frank, Jr. died 2 days after birth
• 1837 elected to US Senate
• 1839 son Frank Robert born
• 1841 son Benjamin born
• 1842 resigns Senate seat returns to law practice in Concord , NH
• 1843 son Frank Robert dies of typhus
• 1846 goes off to war with Mexico
• 1848 returns from war as a Brigadier-General
• 1852 elected US president
• 1853 son Benjamin killed in train wreck; takes office as President
• 1857 leaves office returns home
• 1863 wife dies
• 1869 (April 8) dies at home in Concord, NH.