Franklin Pierce (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
Early Life
Franklin Pierce was born on November 23, 1804, in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. His father, Benjamin, was an American Revolutionary War veteran and two-term state governor (1827-1828, 1829-1830). His mother, Anna Kendrick, was Benjamin’s second wife. Frank, as family and friends called him, was the sixth of their eight children.
Frank attended local schools before enrolling in Bowdoin College. Overcoming homesickness and early academic nonchalance, he was graduated fifth in the class of 1824. Classmates there included John P. Hale, the 1852 Free-Soil...
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