On November 23, 1804 in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, young Franklin Pierce was born. Franklin Pierce was one out of eight children born under the roof of Benjamin and Anna Kendrick Pierce. When Franklin was 30 he married Jane Means Appleton, they later had three kids which all died in various ways. Their first child died two days after being born, and their second child died at age four of epidemic typhus. The last son they had was beheaded in a train accident in front of Pierce, leaving him devastated, and depressed.
Attending Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, Pierce excelled in public speaking as well as academics. When he graduated in 1824, he was the top three students of his class. Later, in 1826, with the intention to study law, …show more content…
At the Democratic Convention, the delegates agreed easily enough upon a platform pledging undeviating support of the Compromise of 1850. They balloted 48 times and eliminated all the well-known candidates before nominating Pierce, a true "dark horse." Pierce was finally became president on March 4, 1854, he served one term as a Democratic and his Vice President was William R. King.
Pierce had only to make gestures toward expansion to excite the wrath of northerners, who accused him of acting as a cat's-paw of Southerners eager to extend slavery into other areas. Therefore, he aroused apprehension when he pressured Great Britain to relinquish its special interests along part of the Central American coast, and even more when he tried to persuade Spain to sell Cuba.
The most violent renewal of the storm stemmed from the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise and reopened the question of slavery in the West. This measure, the handiwork of Senator Stephen A. Douglas, grew in part out of his desire to promote a railroad from Chicago to California through Nebraska. Already Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, advocate of a southern transcontinental route, had persuaded Pierce to send James Gadsden to Mexico to buy land for a southern railroad. He purchased the area now comprising southern Arizona and part of southern New Mexico for
Attending Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, Pierce excelled in public speaking as well as academics. When he graduated in 1824, he was the top three students of his class. Later, in 1826, with the intention to study law, …show more content…
At the Democratic Convention, the delegates agreed easily enough upon a platform pledging undeviating support of the Compromise of 1850. They balloted 48 times and eliminated all the well-known candidates before nominating Pierce, a true "dark horse." Pierce was finally became president on March 4, 1854, he served one term as a Democratic and his Vice President was William R. King.
Pierce had only to make gestures toward expansion to excite the wrath of northerners, who accused him of acting as a cat's-paw of Southerners eager to extend slavery into other areas. Therefore, he aroused apprehension when he pressured Great Britain to relinquish its special interests along part of the Central American coast, and even more when he tried to persuade Spain to sell Cuba.
The most violent renewal of the storm stemmed from the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise and reopened the question of slavery in the West. This measure, the handiwork of Senator Stephen A. Douglas, grew in part out of his desire to promote a railroad from Chicago to California through Nebraska. Already Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, advocate of a southern transcontinental route, had persuaded Pierce to send James Gadsden to Mexico to buy land for a southern railroad. He purchased the area now comprising southern Arizona and part of southern New Mexico for