“I never imagined,” former NATO secretary general Anders Rasmussen wrote in a Wall Street Journal column last week, that “I would hear a US president declare his intentions to ‘expand our territory,’ ...

THE 14TH PRESIDENT of the United States, Franklin Pierce, was the only person from New Hampshire to hold this position. Pierce was born in 1804 in Hillsborough to Benjamin and Anna Kendrick Pierce. A ...

Born: November 23, 1804, Hillsborough, New Hampshire... Pierce's strong support for the Comrpromise of 1850 appeared to indicate that he was not going to press the issue of slavery. With the country ...