jan 1, 1852 - Franklin Pierce elected president

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Franklin Pierce was the fourteenth president of the United States and was born on November 23, 1804, in Hillsborough, NH and died on October 8, 1869, The Pierce Manse, Concord, NH. He was a northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation.

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