QUICK FACTS
Nickname: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills
Years in office: 1853–1857
Political party: Democratic
Birthday: November 23, 1804
Official presidential portrait of Franklin Pierce
by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1858
Franklin Pierce, by Mauritz H. Traubel, 1852 (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)
Handsome Frank was the Democratic Party nominee for the election of 1852. Pierce easily defeated the Whig candidate, Winfield Scott.
In the election of 1852, the Whig party chose to not nominate the incumbent president, Millard Fillmore. Instead, they went with General Winfield Scott. He challenged a lesser-known Democratic candidate, Franklin Pierce. Pierce won by a large margin, signaling the decline of the Whigs.
BIRTHPLACE
Hillsboro, NH
FRANKLIN PIERCE UNIVERSITY
Rindge, NH
HOME
Concord, NH
GRAVESITE
Concord, NH
BOOKS
Davis, Kenneth C., and Pedro Martin. Don’t Know Much about the Presidents. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.
DeGregorio, William A., and Aaron Jaffe. The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents. Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, Inc., 2017.
Kane, Joseph Nathan, and Janet Podell. Facts about the Presidents: A Compilation of Biographical and Historical Information. New York: H.W. Wilson, 2009.
WEBSITES
Encyclopedia Britannica, britannica.com
Library of Congress, loc.gov
Miller Center, University of Virginia, millercenter.org/the-presidency
The White House, whitehouse.gov
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