Good looks & support of compromise got this New Hampshirite elected in 1852 at age 47
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Franklin Pierce - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com  Get all the facts on HISTORY.com. ... At the age of 24, he won election to the New Hampshire state legislature, and two years later he became its speaker. ... At the time he was elected president in 1852, 47-year-old Franklin Pierce became the ... platform included a pledge of complete support for the Compromise of 1850.
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Jeopary Questions page 917 - HE'S MY VICE PRESIDENT ...  PRESIDENTS: Good looks & support of compromise got this New Hampshirite elected in 1852 at age 47  ROCKS FOR JOCKS: Until it's cooled, the object seen...
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United States presidential election of 1852 - Britannica.com  The Whig Party's last hurrah The election of 1852 was contested... ... and James Buchanana coalition of New England and Southern delegates proposed ... to adhere to the Compromise of 1850, with the Democrats more unified in their support ... Pierce, age 47, was the youngest man to be elected to the U.S. presidency.
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Election of 1852 - United States History  The role of Election of 1852 in the history of the United States of America. ... and the nomination eventually (on the 49th ballot) went to Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire. His support of the Compromise of 1850, and of the Fugitive Slave Act in...
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Franklin Pierce - Wikipedia  Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804  October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United ... In the 1852 presidential election, Pierce and his running mate William R. ... Missouri Compromise, while many whites in the South continued to support .... At the age of 27, he was a star of the New Hampshire Democratic Party.
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Abraham Lincoln Meets Grace Bedell - Abraham Lincoln Online  ... elected President, Lincoln received a letter from Grace Bedell, an 11-year-old girl ... a little girl, who urged him, as a means of improving his personal appearance, to wear whiskers. ... Here he was introduced for the first time to Mrs. Lincoln.
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How the Bush political dynasty measures up to the Adams clan - The ...  Dec 17, 2014 ... Is he angling to one-up the Adams father-son presidential dynasty? ... his opponents as an effete New Englander, someone too removed from regular people ... When Benjamin Harrison ran for president in 1888, his opponents said his ... That was before his campaign slogan was Grandfather's Hat Fits Ben...
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Compromise of 1877 - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com  Immediately after the presidential election of 1876, it became clear that the ... the Democrats chose as their candidate Governor Samuel B. Tilden of New York, while ... By midnight, Tilden had 184 of the 185 electoral votes he needed to win, and was ... When Davis refused to serve, the moderate Republican Justice Joseph...
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President Elect - Articles - The Progressive Party and the 1912 ...  Jan 26, 2009 ... The division in the Republican Party was caused by ex-President ... the standard-bearer for the newly-formed Progressive, or Bull-Moose, Party. ... happen if Roosevelt's Progressive Party had won the 1912 election ... Also, the Western states that went Democratic because of the split in the Republican Party...
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The Greatest Presidential Comebacks - POLITICO Magazine  Aug 27, 2016 ... Heading into election day in 1948, most everyone seemed certain ... CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT, HARRY TRUMAN SHOULD QUIT. ... First, there was Thomas Dewey, a stiff, dour former prosecutor entirely lacking in common touch. ... the former Georgia governor sorely compromised his squeaky-clean...
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"In 1860, an 11-year-old girl named Grace Bedell wrote a letter to ...  'Dear Sir...if you let your whiskers grow...you would look a great deal better for your face is so thin. ... This is why every man should strive for facial hair: "In 1860, an 11-year-old girl named ..... Few presidents had more stress than Abraham Lincoln. ..... Then about age 10, he played the piano for President James Buchanan.
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The Democratic Party - Essential Civil War Curriculum  The Wilmot Proviso drove northern Democrats into a bipartisan coalition with northern Whigs ... One possible solution was to extend the Missouri Compromise line that in 1820 ... There was even talk that the South might secede from the Union. .... Copperheads by Republicans after the poisonous snake of the same name.
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Grover Cleveland: Mrs. Halpin and the Child - Doctor Zebra  During the 1884 presidential campaign, a disreputable newspaper in Buffalo, NY ... fathered an illegitimate son with a 36 year old widow, Maria Halpin, in 1874. ... But because he could not be sure the child was not his, he did the honorable thing .... friend who had been county judge while he was sheriff, Roswell L. Burrows,...
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Jeopary Questions page 1921 - THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE ...  POLITICAL JOHNS: Later a pres. candidate, in 1841 this pathfinder eloped with Sen. Thomas Hart Benton's 17-year-old daughter  A FOXY CATEGORY: It's the...
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The Compromise of 1850 [ushistory.org]  The "Great Compromiser," Henry Clay, introduces the Compromise of 1850 in the Senate. The plan ... California was admitted to the Union as the 16th free state.
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The Formation of the Republican Party: 1850 to 1865 | Soapboxie  Oct 17, 2016 ... This is not to say slavery was unimportant during this time, but merely to suggest that ... Salmon Chase is an interesting politician in that while he would find himself a ... to be free or slave, was championed by Senator Stephan Douglas, an Illinois Democrat. ..... Nobody has ever expected me to be President.
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History Doesn't Bode Well: Slim Wins Have Grim Past - WSJ  Among narrow-margin presidential victors of 19th century, only one thrived ... Adams was no exception, and he was a brilliant man. ... Tilden had won the popular vote nationally by more than 250,000 votes and ... Cleveland, the incumbent, won the popular vote by 90,000 votes but lost in the Electoral College, 233 to 168.
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Thomas Hart Benton (politician) - Wikipedia  Thomas Hart Benton (March 14, 1782  April 10, 1858), nicknamed "Old Bullion", was a U.S. Senator from Missouri and a staunch advocate of westward expansion of the United States. He served in the Senate from 1821 to 1851, becoming the first member of ... Benton was assigned to represent Jackson's interests to military officials in...
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1820s America Flashcards | Quizlet  On July 4, 1826 this former president died at age 83 after asking, "Is it the ... On April 8, 1826 this "Great Compromiser" duelled John Randolph; neither man was...
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Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress  Your Reasons against entering into it at present, appear to me not well-founded. ... then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. ... then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering ... 8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!
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The Great Compromiser | - HistoryLessons.net  Jun 29, 2016 ... ... Clay arguably is the greatest American statesman never to become president. ... He was called The Great Compromiser because of his ability to fashion ... That gave America, or at least the northern half of it, time to put into...