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President Franklin Pierce
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Franklin Pierce
is the 14th President serving from 1853 to 1857. |
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Vice Pres. |
William
Rufus de Vane King was Vice President.
King took the oath of office in Havana, Cuba where he had gone
for health reasons.
King was born in Sampson County,
North
Carolina on April 7,
1786.
He died in office at his plantation near Cahaba, Dallas
County, Alabama on April 18, 1853 the following month after
taking the oath of office. (Rufus King of Alabama)
With no one filling the position of
Vice President the next in line to succeed to the presidency was
President Pro Tempore to the Senate David R. Atchison until
December 1853 then Lewis Case until December 1854, then Jesse D.
Bright until June 1856, then Charles E Stuart in June 1856,
again and finally Jesse D. Bright until January 1857
King County in Washington State was named for Vice President
William R. King, but was renamed in 2005 to honor Dr. Martin
Luther King. |
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First Lady |
Jane
Means (Appleton) Pierce and President Pierce had 3 children, all
had died before reaching adolescence. |
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Pierce
was a
democrat from
New Hampshire.
He was the first president to recite his inaugural address by
memory.
He signed the real of the
Missouri Compromise, allowing the
territories of
Kansas and
Nebraska to decide whether to allow
slavery.
The Gadsden Purchase has the U.S. paying 10 million dollars for
45,535 miles of land that comprised today's southernmost
Arizona
and New Mexico.
Pierce County in Washington State was named for President Pierce
to gain favor with the administration concerning the issue of
Washington Territory in becoming a state. |
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Inaug. Addr. |
"It
will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place
in the public deliberations. It will not be sufficient that the
rash counsels of human passion are rejected. It must be felt
that there is no national security but in the nation's humble,
acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence."
- President Franklin Pierce, Inaugural Address.
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"The storm of
frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against
the unshaken rock of the Constitution." - President
Franklin Pierce.
"The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to
the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond
either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government." -
President Franklin Pierce.
"A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The history
of all popular Governments show how absurd is the idea of their
attempting to exist without parties." - President Franklin
Pierce. |
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Birth Death |
Franklin Pierce was
born November 23, 1804 in Hillsboro,
New Hampshire.
Pierce died on October 8, 1869 in Concord,
New Hampshire. |
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G Washington
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Jefferson - J Madison -
J Monroe -
J Q
Adams - A Jackson -
- M Van Buren -
W
H Harrison - J Tyler -
J Polk -
Z Taylor -
M Fillmore -
F Pierce
- J Buchanan -
A
Lincoln - A Johnson -
- U S Grant -
R B Hayes
- J Garfield -
C
Arthur - G Cleveland -
B Harrison -
G
Cleveland - W McKinley -
T Roosevelt -
- W Taft
- W Wilson -
W Harding
- C Coolidge -
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Hoover - F D Roosevelt -
H Truman -
D D Eisenhower
- J F Kennedy -
- L B Johnson -
R Nixon -
G Ford -
J Carter -
R Reagan -
G H W Bush
- B Clinton -
G W Bush
- BH Obama -
- Methodology -
TimeLine of the Presidency -
Inauguration Speeches
- Party Platforms
-
The Early Presidents
- Distinctions of the
Presidencies
Black
American Patriots -
President's Day -
Rhymes about the
Founding Fathers
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