Franklin Pierce
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Army", "Healy, George Peter Alexander", "Pierce, Franklin"], "onPhysicalExhibit": ["Yes"], "topic": ["Legislators", "Congressmen", "Government", "Portraits", "Lawyers", "Law and Law Enforcement", "Brigadier General", "Military and Intelligence", "Men", "Senators", "Politics", "Presidents", "Officer"], "place": ["United States", "New Hampshire"], "online_media_type": ["Images"]}, "freetext": {"setName": [{"label": "See more items in", "content": "National Portrait Gallery Collection"}, {"label": "Exhibition", "content": "America's Presidents (Reinstallation September 2017)"}, {"label": "On View", "content": "NPG, South Gallery 240"}], "date": [{"label": "Date", "content": "1853"}], "identifier": [{"label": "Object number", "content": "NPG.65.49"}], "notes": [{"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Fourteenth president, 1853\u00e2\u0080\u00931857"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "\u00e2\u0080\u009cWhat luck Frank has,\u00e2\u0080\u009d remarked Nathaniel Hawthorne when he began writing a campaign biography of his lifelong friend Franklin Pierce, the 1852 Democratic candidate for president. Pierce coasted effortlessly through elections to New Hampshire state offices and to Congress, and rose from the rank of private to brigadier general in the Mexican-American War without firing a shot. Once in the White House, however, his luck ran out. When fighting erupted in Kansas between pro- and anti-slavery factions, Pierce, a Northerner with Southern sympathies, was unwilling to antagonize his Southern friends or to use the authority of his office to intervene. As a result, his administration, which had begun so hopefully with the Compromise of 1850, ended in the midst of a series of violent political confrontations, referred to as \u00e2\u0080\u009cBleeding Kansas,\u00e2\u0080\u009d that foreshadowed the Civil War."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "14o presidente, 1853\u00e2\u0080\u00931857"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "\u00e2\u0080\u009cQu\u00c3\u00a9 suerte tiene Frank\u00e2\u0080\u009d, coment\u00c3\u00b3 Nathaniel Hawthorne cuando empez\u00c3\u00b3 a escribir una biograf\u00c3\u00ada de Franklin Pierce, su amigo de toda la vida, para la campa\u00c3\u00b1a electoral de este en 1852. Pierce, candidato presidencial por el Partido Dem\u00c3\u00b3crata, hab\u00c3\u00ada sido electo sin mayor esfuerzo a puestos estatales en New Hampshire y luego al Congreso de Estados Unidos, adem\u00c3\u00a1s de haber ascendido de soldado raso hasta brigadier general en la guerra con M\u00c3\u00a9xico sin disparar un tiro. Sin embargo, al llegar a la Casa Blanca se le acab\u00c3\u00b3 la suerte. Cuando estall\u00c3\u00b3 un conflicto en Kansas entre facciones en pro y en contra de la esclavitud, Pierce, norte\u00c3\u00b1o con simpat\u00c3\u00adas sure\u00c3\u00b1as, no quiso antagonizar a sus amigos del sur ni ejercer su autoridad para intervenir. A ra\u00c3\u00adz de esto, su administraci\u00c3\u00b3n, comenzada con tantas esperanzas cifradas en el Compromiso de 1850, termin\u00c3\u00b3 en medio de violentas confrontaciones pol\u00c3\u00adticas conocidas como \u00e2\u0080\u009cKansas Sangrante\u00e2\u0080\u009d, que ya anunciaban la Guerra Civil."}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "Perry Belmont (1851-1947), New York and Washington; purchased 27 January 1919 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; purchased 29 December 1936 by The A. W. 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