Pierce Administration - Post-presidential Years
Post-presidential Years
The first elected president to fail to be renominated by his party, Pierce retired to Concord, New Hampshire, in 1857 to care for his ailing wife. He continued to follow politics, denounced the abolitionists (those who lobbied for the abolition of slavery), and became depressed at the election of President Abraham Lincoln and the start of the American Civil War (1861–65). Jane Pierce died in December 1863, and Franklin Pierce passed away, largely to be forgotten by history, on October 8, 1869.
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