- expand out list of all U.S. presidents
- Franklin Pierce (allthetropes.org)
Yet another (and arguably the most) largely forgettable 19th-century president. Known as “Handsome Frank.” The lesser-known of the two historical namesakes of Benjamin Franklin Pierce.
- Franklin Pierce (Wikipedia)
Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th president of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. A northern Democrat who believed that the abolitionist movement was a fundamental threat to the nation’s unity, he alienated anti-slavery groups by signing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act. Conflict between North and South continued after Pierce’s presidency, and, after Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, the Southern states seceded, resulting in the American Civil War.
