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1853-1857 Franklin Pierce Vice President was William R. King. Franklin Pierce's Inaugural Address.
He backed the Gadsden Purchase (1854) to buy the southern parts of Arizona and New Mexico for $ 10 million from Mexico. Pierce also tried to conciliate the South over slavery, but guerilla warfare broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in Kansas in 1855 - 56, heightening national tensions. About his private life: Would anyone have listened to any young woman if Franklin Pierce would have had a casual affair with her?
14 Franklin Pierce Born: November 23, 1804, Hillsboro, New Hampshire. Died: October 8, 1869. Party: Democratic. Age when inaugurated: 48. Term: 1853-1857. Pierce supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which gutted the Compromise of 1850. Famous Fact: Pierce's wife hated Washington, D.C., so much, that she fainted when she found out he had been nominated for President.(Source: scholasticnetwork.com)
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