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| Franklin Pierce
(1804 - 1869)
| Timeline |
| 1804 |
Born 23 November |
| 1820 |
Enters Bowdoin College, meets Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| 1826 |
Enters law school in Northampton, Massachusetts |
| 1827 |
Admitted to the bar, opens law practice in New Hampshire |
| 1828 |
Elected to the lower house of the New Hampshire General Court, the New Hampshire House of Representatives |
| 1832 |
Serves as Speaker until 1833 |
| 1833 |
Elected as a Democrat to the 23rd and 24th Congresses (March 4, 1833 – March 4, 1837) |
| 1834 |
Marries Jane Means Appleton |
| 1837 |
Elected by the New Hampshire General Court as a Democrat to the United States Senate |
| 1839 |
Son, Frank, born |
| 1841 |
Son, Benjamin, born |
| 1842 |
Resigns Senate |
| 1843 |
Son, Frank, dies from epidemic typhus at the age of four |
| 1846 |
Enlists in the volunteer services during the Mexican-American War |
| 1847 |
Appointed brigadier general of volunteers and took command of a brigade of reinforcements for Winfield Scott's army marching on Mexico City |
| 1850 |
Serves as president of the New Hampshire State constitutional convention |
| 1852 |
Pierce runs for President as the Democratic pary compromise candidate - winning 27 of the 31 states |
| 1852 |
Son, Franklin, born - dies in infancy |
| 1853 |
Gadsden Purchase |
| 1853 |
Son, Benjamin, dies at the age of eleven in a railway accident |
| 1854 |
Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| 1869 |
Dies 8 October |
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