President Franklin Pierce: External Resources

From a collection of the only remaining Franklin Pierce papers at the Library of Congress.

by Sidney Webster, 1892

A Library of Congress illustrated guide to Pierce's inauguration. Includes a transcript of his address, newspaper accounts, and illustrations of the day.

A Maine Historical Society letter. Franklin Pierce, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, at home in New Hampshire on a Congressional recess, wrote to his friend George W. Pierce of Portland about the quiet political situation in New Hampshire and the lively political debates in Maine. Both men were Democrats.

From the Democratic National Convention, 1852

Online text of a book supporting General Pierce and his conduct in the Mexican War.