Franklin Pierce enjoyed a meteoric rise in politics. The son of a governor, Pierce was elected to the New Hampshire state legislature at 25; at 28, he went to the U.S. House of Representatives ...

The Democratic Party required 48 ballots before Franklin Pierce was nominated in 1852. Pierce won the general election against his former commanding officer in the Mexican War, the Whig's Party's ...

23, members of the Pierce Brigade, New Hampshire National Guard and Beaver Meadow students gathered to honor Franklin Pierce, the only Granite Stater to serve as U.S. President, at his grave in ...