Born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, in 1804, Pierce will present Bowdoin College. After graduation he studied law, then in politics. At 24 he was voted the New Hampshire legislature, two years later he became the spokesman. During the 1830s he went to Washington, first as a representative, then as a senator.
Pierce, after being in the war against Mexico, was proposed by New Hampshire friends for the presidential candidacy in 1852. At the Democratic convention, the delegates agreed easily enough to shake on a platform pledging unwavering support of the Compromise of 1850 and hostility to any efforts by the slavery question. But they vote 48 times and eliminated all the known candidates for the appointment of Pierce, a true "dark horse".
Probably because the Democrats were determined to compromise than the Whigs, and because Whig candidate General Winfield Scott was suspect in southern Pierce won with a narrow margin of popular votes.
Two months before his inauguration, he and his wife saw their eleven-year-old son killed when their train was demolished. With sadness beaten, kicked the chair nervously exhausted Pierce.
In his inaugural speech, he called an era of peace and prosperity at home, and power in relationships with other countries. The United States might have to purchase additional goods for their own safety, he pointed out, and not be deterred by "any timid forebodings of evil."
Pierce had only gestures toward expansion of the wrath of the north, from him as a handyman accused of Southerners like to extend slavery into other areas of generation. So he is awakened fears, as he put the pressure on Britain to the special interests distance along a portion of the Central American coast, and even more if he persuade to Spain to sell Cuba tries.
But the most violent renewal of the assault came from the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise and again the question of slavery in the West. This measure, which grew from the work of Senator Stephen A. Douglas in part by his desire to create a railroad from Chicago to California through Nebraska to promote. Already Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, advocate of a southern transcontinental route, Pierce had to be persuaded James Gadsden to send to Mexico to buy land for a runway. He bought the area now southern Arizona and part of southern New Mexico for $ 10,000,000.
Douglas's proposal for the western region to organize a railroad to run, would cause extreme problems. Douglas in his books, to decide that the residents of new areas, the demand for slavery. The result was a rush into Kansas, as southerners and northerners vied for control of the territory. Shooting broke out, and "bleeding Kansas" became a prelude to civil war.
By the end of his tenure Pierce could claim "a peaceful state of Kansas." But to his disappointment, the Democrats refused to renominate and turned to the less controversial Buchanan. Pierce returned to New Hampshire, leaving his successor to the growing anger of the average whirlwind face. He died in 1869.
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