Draft:Franklin Pierce



Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States from 1853 to 1857, who was, by all accounts, a doughface. Pierce was part of a short line of incompetent leaders that would act in favor of the South in the years leading up to the American Civil War.

Before all of that, he was involved as a Representative, and later a Senator for New Hampshire.

An ugly life...
Pierce had a miserable life to say the least. This was in spite of the privileges he had growing up in New Hampshire, as well as his descendance from then governor Benjamin Pierce. He suffered from serious alcohol abuse and would constantly drink.

He died alone as well.

"Achievements"
Perhaps his biggest accomplishment as President would be approving the Kansas-Nebraska Act. What this did was allow the expanding territories to be open to slavery, which was in spite of the Missouri Compromise, that placed all potential slave states below, well, Missouri.

Legacy
Pierce is an often ignored and forgotten president. However, scholars and historians have a general consensus of considering him among the absolute worst of the worst in terms of presidents. What is known is that his incompetence led to further escalation into what would result in the Civil War.