Pierce Administration - Early Life
Early Life
Franklin Pierce was born in a log home on November 23, 1804, among the hills of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. Franklin's father, General Benjamin Pierce, was a veteran of the American Revolution (1775–83) who was active in local politics. Anna Kendrick Pierce, Franklin's mother and Benjamin's second wife, was known as a lively and tender soul. The seventh of his father's nine children, Franklin enjoyed a rural boyhood fishing and swimming in the ponds and creeks of backwoods New Hampshire.
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