14th President of the United States - Franklin Pierce

 

Franklin Pierce 

14th President of the United States

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Franklin Pierce is another of the forgotten presidents, and his life, on a personal level, was unfortunate. He was an alcoholic, and his wife suffered from depression all of her life. All 3 of his children died young, his youngest was decapitated by a train on the way to his inauguration - an event he personally witnessed. He was a pro slavery president, who was responsible for Bleeding Kansas, a mini civil war between pro- and anti-slavery forces that occurred in Kansas from 1856 to 1865. He felt that slavery was a social and political evil, but felt the abolitionist movement should be crushed.