Celebrating what would have been his 220th birthday on Nov. 23, members of the Pierce Brigade, New Hampshire National Guard and Beaver Meadow students gathered to honor Franklin Pierce, the only ...

That house was built in 1856 and was on the National Register of Historic Places because our only president, Franklin Pierce, rented it from 1857, after he left the presidency, until his death in ...

In 1833, Pierce entered the U.S. House of Representatives and in 1837 he became a U.S. Senator. Pierce later resigned from the Senate and returned to New Hampshire state politics.