Pierce was born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, on November 23, 1804. Franklin Pierce went to Bowdoin College. After he graduated from Bowdoin, he studied law, and then entered politics. At the age of 24 he was elected to the New Hampshire legislature. Two years after he was elected he became New Hampshire's speaker. When he went to Washington, during the 1830's, he went at first as a representative, but then as a senator.

After Mr. Franklin Pierce fought in the Mexican war, he was suggested by some of his friends from New Hampshire for the Presidential nomination. That was in 1852. When at the Democratic Convention the delegates agreed easily on a "platform pledging undeviating support of the Compromise of 1850 and hostility to any efforts to agitate the slavery question." They voted a whole of 48 times and eradicated all the well-known nominated people in the race before they actually nominated Pierce, whom...