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About
The 14th president of the United States who was a doughface, meaning a Northerner who sympathized with the South.
He was well-liked personally, but severely unpopular as president as his later support for the Confederacy was a death knell to his reputation.
He was friends with two of America's greatest writers: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne. -
Before fame
He had a successful private law practice in New Hampshire that led to many professional opportunities, most of which he turned down.
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He fathered three sons with his wife, Jane Means Appleton, none of whom reached adolescence or lived to see their father become president.
- The meaning of the name Pierce: Rock
