President Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,grossbild-323092-282694,00.html

Franklin Pierce 1804-1869 http://www.nhhistory.org/eimages/Feb2008/piercehairstyles.htm

First Lady Jane Pierce http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/058_fla3.html

Jane Means Appleton Pierce 1806-1863 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Pierce

Vice President William Rufus D. King 1853 http://www.prairiebluff.com/algenweb/dallas/about.html

Secretary of State William L. Marcy 1853-1857 http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/sw-sa/Marcy.htm

Franklin Pierce - National Portrait Gallery http://www.nhcommentary.com/FranklinPierceWaller1.htm

Birthplace and Family homestead built by Franklin Pierce's father in 1804 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Pierce_Homestead

Childhood home of Franklin Pierce in Hillsborough, NH http://www.nhliving.com/attractions/franklinpiercehome/index.shtml

Franklin Pierce married Jane Means Appleton on Nov. 19, 1834 http://www.whitehousehistory.org/05/subs/05_b07.html

Franklin Pierce Family Home 1842-1848 http://www.whitehousechristmascards.com/franklin-pierce-1853-1857/franklin-pierce/

1847 Brigadier General Franklin Pierce http://www.geocities.com/~jmgould/adhistpt2.html

1847 American troops landing at Vera Cruz http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/mexico/topo/Ch6.htm

Franklin Pierce in uniform http://www.nhhistory.org/eimages/Feb2008/piercehairstyles.htm

1852 Pierce-King campaign poster http://www.p4a.com/itemsummary/167568.htm

1852 Pierce's friend Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a book about the future President http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/lfp.html

Maj. General Winfield Scott was the opposing Whig candidate http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Guadalupe.html

1852 Pierce elected. Presidential Candidate General Winfield Scott had 42 votes vs 254 with running mate former Senator and Governor of SC and former Secretary of the Army William A. Graham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfield_Scott

1853 Chief Justice Roger B. Taney administering the oath of office to Franklin Pierce on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol http://www.digitaldocsinabox.org/images/PresidentialInaugurations/pierce.html

Supreme Court Justice John Archibald Campbell 1853-1861 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Archibald_Campbell_-_Brady-Handy.jpg

Franklin Pierce's inaugural festivity at the whitehouse http://www.americanpresident.org/history/franklinpierce/biography/DomesticAffairs.common.shtml

Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War under Pierce http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may10.html

1852 The Gadsden Purchase http://museum.utep.edu/archive/history/DDgadsden.htm

1854 The Kansas-Nebraska Act split the Whigs http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/kansas.html

1854 President Pierce attempted to purchase cuba http://www.historycentral.com/Ant/Ostend.html

Senator Charles Sumner of Mass. opposed slavery http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_pos.html

Speaker of the House Nathaniel Prentice Banks 1856-1857 was Governor of Mass. 1858-1860 and a Maj. Gen. in the Civil War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Prentice_Banks

Franklin Pierce died on October 8, 1869. He is buried in the Old North Cemetery in Concord, NH http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/814.html