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Jane Pierce. Jane Means Pierce (née Appleton; March 12, 1806 – December 2, 1863) was the wife of Franklin Pierce and the first lady of the United States from 1853 to 1857. She married Franklin Pierce, then a congressman, in 1834 despite her family's misgivings. She refused to live in Washington, D.C., and in 1842, she convinced her husband ...
Jane Pierce (born March 12, 1806, Hampton, New Hampshire, U.S.—died December 2, 1863, Andover, Massachusetts) was the American first lady (1853–57), the wife of Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the United States. Jane Appleton was the third of six children born to Jesse Appleton, a Congregational minister and president of Bowdoin College ...
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Dec 2, 2009 · Jane Pierce (1806-63) was the wife of the 14th U.S. president and the first lady from 1853 to 1857. She disliked political life, suffered from depression and tuberculosis, and died in Massachusetts.
Jane Means Appleton Pierce was the wife of the 14th President, Franklin Pierce. She served as First Lady of the United States from 1853 to 1857. In looks
Jane Pierce was the wife of President Franklin Pierce and the mother of four sons who died young. She suffered from depression and grief and held séances at the White House to contact her deceased loved ones.
Jane Means Appleton Pierce detested politics. It was unfortunate, then, that she had married a man whose passion was politics. Although Jane opposed her husband's commitment to public service, Franklin Pierce's ambition and popularity assured him of a bright political future -- and guaranteed a disheartened Jane a dismal private life.
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Jane Pierce. Jane Appleton was born on March 12, 1806, to parents Elizabeth and Jesse Appleton. Following the death of her father, a Congregationalist minister and president of Bowdoin College, Jane attended boarding school in Keene, New Hampshire. She later met a Bowdoin graduate, a young lawyer with political ambitions, Franklin Pierce.
