His only son, 11-year-old Bennie, was killed when their campaign train rolled off its tracks.
This happened to 14th President Franklin Pierce, who was born NOVEMBER 23, 1804.
Elected to Congress at age 29, Franklin Pierce was a Senator at 33.
He
resigned from Congress during the Mexican-American War and enlisted as a
private. He was eventually promoted to brigadier general.
Pierce's leg was crushed at the Battle of Churubusco.
Franklin Pierce ran for President against General Winfield Scott, whom he had served under during the War.
Before he died, Franklin Pierce was baptized in St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Concord.
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Franklin
Pierce was friends with the famous American writers Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne, the latter being with him the night
he died.
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in a biography of Franklin Pierce:
"Whether in sorrow or success he has learned...that religious faith is the most valuable...of human possessions...
With
this sense, there has come...a wide sympathy for the modes of
Christian worship and a reverence for religious belief as a matter
between the Deity and man's soul."
President Franklin Pierce said in his Inaugural, March 4, 1853:
"It must be felt that
there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling Providence."
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