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He was born on November 23, 1804 in New Hampshire
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He studied law in Massachusetts
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Pierce entered political life as a Democrat. He worked in the House of Representatives and the Senate
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Pierce was married to Jane Appleton. They had 3 children,2 of them died when they were little. The third died in the age of eleven.
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After the Mexican-American war he won the 1852 presidential elections and became the 14-th president of the US
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He created his Cabinet and started working on problems with slavery and the conflict of the South and the North
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Pierce singed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Franklin Pierce died on Octoder 8,1869