Franklin Pierce Totally Explained

Everything about Franklin Pierce totally explained

Supreme Court appointments

Pierce appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States:

John Archibald Campbell – 1853

States admitted to the Union

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Later life

After losing the Democratic nomination, Pierce reportedly quipped "there's nothing left to do but get drunk" (quoted also as "after the White House what is there to do but drink?") which he apparently did frequently. He once ran over an elderly woman while driving a carriage. During the Civil War, Pierce further damaged his reputation by declaring support for the Confederacy, headed by his old cabinet member Davis. One of the few friends to stick by Pierce was his college friend and biographer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, although the former president had fallen so low that he wasn't asked to stand as a pallbearer at Hawthorne's funeral.
In 1863 during the aftermath of Vicksburg, Union Soldiers under General Hugh Ewing's command captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis' Fleetwood Plantation, and Ewing turned over Davis' personal correspondence to his brother-in-law William T. Sherman. However, Ewing also sent copies of the letters to a few people he'd known in Ohio, which, after being published, permanently ruined the reputation of former President Pierce. Even author Harriet Beecher Stowe referred to him as "the archtraitor." Franklin Pierce died in Concord, New Hampshire at 4:49 a.m. on October 8, 1869 at 64 years old, from cirrhosis of the liver, stemming from his heavy drinking problem that he carried throughout his life, and was interred in the Minot Enclosure in the Old North Cemetery of Concord. Historically he's known as one of America's worst and most unproductive presidents.

Legacy

Places named after President Pierce:

Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire.

Franklin Pierce School District, and namesake high school in Parkland, Washington

Pierce Elementary School in Flint, Michigan.

Franklin Pierce High School in the South Central Los Angeles

Pierce County in Washington, Nebraska, Georgia, and Wisconsin (But not in North Dakota)

Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire

Mt. Pierce in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, New Hampshire

Pierce Street in downtown Amarillo, Texas

Pierce Road in the presidential roads in Weymouth, Massachusetts

Preserved home

Franklin Pierce Homestead now a New Hampshire state parkFurther Information

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