Col. Richard Oberman, medical commander and deputy director of Joint Staff at New Hampshire Army National Guard, moves the wreath onto the gravesite of President Franklin Pierce at the Old North ...

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THE 14TH PRESIDENT of the United States, Franklin Pierce, was the only person from New Hampshire to hold this position. Pierce was born in 1804 in Hillsborough to Benjamin and Anna Kendrick Pierce. A ...

“I never imagined,” former NATO secretary general Anders Rasmussen wrote in a Wall Street Journal column last week, that “I would hear a US president declare his intentions to ‘expand our territory,’ ...

Born: November 23, 1804, Hillsborough, New Hampshire... Pierce's strong support for the Comrpromise of 1850 appeared to indicate that he was not going to press the issue of slavery. With the country ...

A portrair of President Franklin Pierce made from a Daguerrotype by Mathew Benjamin Brady between 1855 and 1865. First lady Jane Pierce and her son, Benjamin, in a daguerreotype taken circa 1850. A ...

The Pierce Manse, the historic Concord home of New Hampshire’s only U.S. president, Franklin Pierce, opened for guided tours last week. The Manse will be open Thursdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m.