President Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce University is named after the 14th President of the United States and the only president from New Hampshire. The university does not hold any Franklin Pierce artifacts or papers. His presidential papers are held by the Library of Congress. Below are a list of links that may be helpful to people researching President Franklin Pierce.
Selected Biographies
- Biography from WhiteHouse.gov
- Biography from AmericanPresidents.org
- Biography from Wikipedia
- The Life of Franklin Pierce by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Full Text
- Biography from Virtuology.com
- Scroll down for the entry from the 1887 Appleton's Encyclopedia
Jane Means Appleton Pierce
- Biographical sketch from WhiteHouse.gov
- Biography from Wikipedia
- Brief Bibliography
- Boas, Norman F. Jane M. Pierce (1806-1863): the Pierce-Aiken papers: Letters of Jane M. Pierce, her sister Mary M. Aiken, their family and President franklin Pierce, with biographies of Jane Pierce, other members of her family, and genealogical tables. Stonington, CT : Seaport Autographs, 1983.
- Boas, Norman F. Jane M. Pierce (1806-1863): the Pierce-Aiken papers supplement. Mystic, CT: Seaport Autographs, 1989.
- Kent, Deborah. Jane Means Appleton Pierce.New York: Children's Press, 1998
- Venzke, Jane Walter and Craig Paul Venzke. The President's Wife, Jane Means Appleton Pierce: A Woman of her Time. Historical New Hampshire 59.1 (Spring 2005): 45-63.
Places associated with Franklin Pierce
- Pierce Homestead
- Link to the childhood home of Franklin Pierce in Hillsborough, New Hampshire
- The Pierce Manse
- Franklin Pierce's home in Concord, NH
- Franklin Pierce's Gravesite
Images
Speeches
- Inauguration
- Text of speech and images from the American Memory project at the Library of Congress
- Concord, NH Statue Dedication Speech
- The Address of the Honorable Samuel D. Felker, Governor of New Hampshire at the Dedication of a Statue of Franklin Pierce at the State House in Concord, New Hampshire November 25, 1914.
- Concord, NH Statue Dedication Oration
- Oration of Mr. Branch at the Dedication of the Statue of Franklin Pierce at the Statehouse in Concord, New Hampshire on November 25, 1914.