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Franklin
Pierce was born in Hillsboro, New Hampshire in 1806. He died in 1869. He
was 65 when he died. He went to Bowdon College, in Maine in 1842. He was a
Representative and a Senator from New Hampshire. In 1833, he was the
youngest Senator. Franklin Pierce was a General in the Mexican War. He was
at the first Republican Convention in Lafayette Hall in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. He was married to Jane Means Appleton Pierce and they had
three children, all who died. He was famous for being the first and only
president from New Hampshire. During Pierce’s presidency there were only
31 states. He was the fourteenth president of the United States.
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