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- Term: March 4, 1853 to March 3, 1857
- Party: Democrat
- Occupation: Lawyer, public official
- Education: Bowdoin College, 1824
- Religion: Episcopalian
- Born: November 23, 1804, New Hampshire
- Died: October 8, 1869, New Hampshire
- Nickname: "Young Hickory of the Granite Hills"
- Father: General Benjamin Pierce
- Mother: Ann Kendrick Pierce
- Married: Jane Means Appleton (1806-1863), on November 10, 1834
- Children: Franklin Pierce (1836); Frank Robert Pierce (1839-43); Benjamin Pierce (1841-53)
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