1 Like other presidents, Franklin Pierce hoped to avoid the issue. He also believed that earlier legislation had settled the debate.

2 President Franklin Pierce decided he should make someone else governor of Utah.

3 The new president, Franklin Pierce, was a charming man. He made friends easily.

4 Franklin Pierce was a young man. And his inauguration speech was about a young America.

5 Like other presidents, Franklin Pierce hoped to avoid the issue.

6 Presidents James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce and William Henry Harrison ranked worst overall.

7 The Democratic Party was led by President Franklin Pierce. Pierce wanted to run for re-election.

8 The little-remembered Franklin Pierce, president from 1853 to 1857, is castigated for expanding slavery in the west and thus bringing the civil war closer.

9 Franklin Pierce was from the northeastern state of New Hampshire. He was a lawyer and former state lawmaker.

10 Franklin Pierce was elected the fourteenth president in eighteen fifty-two. He was forty-eight years old,[] one of America's youngest presidents.

11 Now, we continue the story of America's fourteenth president, Franklin Pierce.

12 This week on our series, we continue the story of the presidency of Franklin Pierce. And they talk about the presidential election of eighteen fifty-six.

13 The most difficult national problem facing the administration of President Franklin Pierce was the situation in Kansas. The territory struggled with the issue of slavery.

14 Finally, on the forty-seventh ballot, support began to increase for one of the minor candidates. His name was Franklin Pierce.

15 Only one governor of a small state had ever been elected President, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire in 1852.

16 Let me thank WIPO staff for facilitating WHO collaboration with the Franklin Pierce Law Center at the University of New Hampshire.

17 This week in our series, we talk about the presidency of Franklin Pierce.