We're now on the 14th day of my daily presidents threads celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USA.Today we have Franklin Pierce (11/23/1804 - 10/8/1869), who served as president from 1852 to 1856. He prior served as a senator and representative from New Hampshire. Notable actions or events during his presidency include the death of his son in a rail accident shortly before his inauguration, the Ostend Manifesto, Bleeding Kansas, expanding the capitol, the Young America and Free Soil movements, and the Gadsden PurchaseWhat do your think of the sad drunk?
I'm a non-American and I literally have no idea who the fuck this guy is. Honestly, you could be AI generating them at this point.
>>18508989This dude had an 85 IQ and that's being kind. Just a vapid pretty boy drunk who fucked shit up so badly that he was the first elected president ever denied renomination by his own party.
>>18508993All I know was that he was a proto-Buchanan and that he served in the Mexican American War.This is not unusual actually, many of the pre-civil war presidents are very forgettable.
>>18508989Next to Buchanan the worst president that is on-topic for /his/.
>>18508993After the 1800s they start to become recognizable to outsiders and by post WW2 it's kind of hard not to atleast know about them via cultural osmosis
His post-presidential conduct was also disgraceful.>In retirement in Concord, Pierce was a vocal critic of the Union war effort and denounced the Lincoln Administration. Crowds of people walked by his home to jeer and boo him. After his wife's death in 1866 his alcoholism intensified--he remarked "Well, I suppose there's nothing to do now but drink." Pierce passed away in October 1869 at age 65 of complications from alcohol abuse.[2]
>>18507144>>18508989Young and fierce was Franklin Pierce,The man without a chin
>>18508993Same
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was catastrophic, although Stephen Douglas was really the guy to blame for it.
Barbara Bush was some kind of great great grandniece of Pierce or something.
>>18509062My attempt to name every president in reverse order from memory as a non-American who never studied American history:>Trump>Biden>Obama>Bush>Clinton>Bush Sr>Reagan>The peanut guy with the housing project who died recently whose name I forget>LBJ>Nixon>JFK>Eisenhower>FDR>Wilson>Theodore Roosevelt>Taft>Lincoln>Polk>Thomas Jefferson>George WashingtonOne day I'll care enough to actually study them and memorise them.
>>18508989franklin pierce was /fa/ af even though his presidency was shite
>The 1854 midterms witnessed the typical reverse for the party in power as the Democrats were routed out of Congress in the aftermath of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and a (relatively mild) economic downtown. An assortment of anti-Democrat factions gained control for the 34th Congress--the new Republican Party was founded in Illinois and rapidly spread around the Northern states, opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act and its popular sovereignty doctrine.
>>18508989Kek my parents just visited his homestead in Concord NH
>>18509091Pretty good job, that's still better than like 80% of Americans
>>18509371That's better than 80% of the still living presidents.
>>18508989>celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USA.
