President Franklin Pierce
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Born Nov. 23, 1804, at Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Of English ancestry. The son of Gen. Benjamin Pierce, farmer, governor and officer of the Revolutionary army, and Anna Kendrick. Educated at Bowdoin College. A lawyer. An Episcopalian. Died Oct. 8, 1869, of stomach trouble, at Concord, New Hampshire, age 64. Buried in the Minot Lot, Old Cemetery, Concord. |