Franklin Pierce

Pierce appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States:. Additionally, conservatives charged Gore with illegal fundraising at a Buddhist temple and illegal use of his government office and telephone for political fundraising in violation of the Hatch Act although he was never indicted on such a charge.
. His statement that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" to describe his sponsorship of legislation to fund the commercialization of the internet has been ridiculed significantly by media, although the statement was defended by Internet pioneers such as Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf [16]. Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, New Hampshire, is named after Pierce, as is the Franklin Pierce School District in Tacoma, Washington, and the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire. His views on environmental policy have been cast in the media as politically radical and Canada hating. Franklin Pierce died in Concord, New Hampshire at 4:40 in the morning of October 8, 1869, from cirrhosis of the liver, and was interred in Minat Inclosure in the Old North Cemetery. Gore has also been involved in a number of controversies.

One the few friends to stick by Pierce was his college friend and biographer, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Conservatives have criticized his change as stemming from political expedience rather than conviction. During the Civil War, Pierce further damaged his reputation by declaring support for the Confederacy, headed by his old cabinet member Davis. He had adopted a pro-choice position by 1988, when he sought the Democratic presidential nomination. After losing the Democratic nomination, Pierce reportedly quipped "there's nothing left to do but get drunk" (quoted also as "after the White House what is there to do but drink?") which he apparently did frequently, once running down an elderly woman while driving a carriage drunk. Through the late 1980s, Gore maintained that abortion destroyed innocent human life. Meanwhile, Pierce lost all credibility he may have had in the North and was not renominated. Early in his career, he was pro-life; his Congressional voting record was rated by one source as 84% anti-abortion.

The election of Republican Abraham Lincoln would provoke secession in 1861. Though Gore has gradually moved politically further left; he was once a moderate-to-conservative lawmaker. The passage of Kansas-Nebraska caused widespread outrage in the North and spurred the creation of the Republican Party, a sectional, Northern party which was organized as a direct response to the bill. He was a vocal opponent of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and Republican attempts to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the US Constitution. Pierce, who had acquired a reputation as untrustworthy and easily manipulable, was persuaded to support Douglas' plan in a closed meeting between Pierce, Douglas, and several southern Senators, with Pierce consulting only Jefferson Davis of his cabinet. Gore is now a strong supporter of safe, legal abortion, free trade, and tax cuts to affect personal behavior and tax increases to expand Government's influence and revenue base. Douglas provided in his bills that the residents of the new territories could decide the slavery question for themselves. Al Gore's views are categorized as being those of a liberal.

Douglas, to win Southern support for the organization of Nebraska, placed in his bill a provision declaring the Missouri Compromise null and void. He went on to say, "They even claim that those of us who disagree with their point of view are waging war against ‘people of faith.’ How dare they!" This was Gore's first major policy speech of 2005 and also the first one since the defeat of Democratic hopeful John Kerry in late 2004. He purchased the area now comprising southern Arizona and part of southern New Mexico for $10,000,000, commonly known as the Gadsden Purchase. Gore also took aim at what he called "religious zealots" who claim special knowledge of God’s will in American politics. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, advocate of a southern transcontinental route, had persuaded Pierce to send James Gadsden to Mexico to buy land for a southern railroad. What is involved here is a power grab," Gore said. Douglas, allegedly grew out of his desire to promote a railroad from Chicago, Illinois to California through Nebraska. Compare that with the 60 Clinton nominees who were blocked by Republican obstruction between 1995 and 2000.

This measure, the handiwork of Senator Stephen A. Democrats have held up only 10 nominees, less than 5 percent. But the most controversial event of Pierce's presidency was the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise and reopened the question of slavery in the West. The Senate has confirmed 205 or over 95 percent of President Bush's nominees. seize Cuba by force, and permanently discredited the Democratic Party's expansionist policies, which it had so famously rode to victory in 1844. In response to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who for weeks has repeated threats to impose the "nuclear option" if Senate Democrats did not stop blocking judicial nominees via the filibuster, Gore said, "Their grand design is an all-powerful executive using a weakened legislature to fashion a compliant judiciary in its own image. The release of the Ostend Manifesto, signed by several of Pierce's cabinet members, caused outrage with its suggestion that the U.S. On April 27, 2005, Gore gave an hour long speech lambasting the GOP's effort to do away with the legislative filibuster.

Pierce aroused sectional apprehension when he pressured Britain to relinquish its special interests along part of the Central American coast, and even more when he tried to persuade Spain to sell Cuba. As of April 5, 2005, Gore has not yet made any comments on any of the group's efforts. Many thought that the diverse group would soon break up, but instead it became the only Cabinet that would remain unchanged through a four-year term. In January of 2005, several sources reported that Gore was considering running in 2008. Pierce selected for his Cabinet not men of similar beliefs but a broad cross-section of people he personally knew. Therefore, on November 3, 2004, several groups launched an effort to try to influence the former vice president to seek the presidency in 2008. In his inaugural address, he proclaimed an era of peace and prosperity at home and vigor in relations with other nations, saying that the United States might have to acquire additional possessions for the sake of its own security and would not be deterred by "any timid forebodings of evil." For religous reasons he chose to affirm, rather then swear, the presidential oath of office, becoming the first and only president to do so. Although the Vice President maintains that he has no intention to run for political office again, he has also said that he cannot rule it out completely.

Grief-stricken, Pierce entered the presidency nervously exhausted. In an hour long presentation, Gore concluded that, "I'm convinced that most of the president's frequent departures from fact-based analysis have much more to do with right-wing political and economic ideology than with the Bible.". Pierce and his wife survived and were merely shaken up, but they watched as their 11-year-old son Benjamin ("Bennie") was crushed to death in the train disaster. On October 18, 2004, Al Gore delivered his final major policy speech of the 2004 political season. Two months before he took office, shortly after boarding a train in Boston, president-elect Pierce and his family were trapped in a derailed car when it rolled over an embankment near Andover, Massachusetts. Gore directed remarks to supporters of third-party presidential candidate Ralph Nader, who abandoned the Democratic Party four years ago, asking them, "Do you still believe that there was no difference between the candidates?". Pierce served as president from March 4, 1853, to March 4, 1857. "Let's make sure not only that the Supreme Court does not pick the next president, but also that this president is not the one who picks the next Supreme Court," said Gore.

In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act divided the Whigs, with the Northern Whigs deeply opposed, resulting in a split between former Whigs, some of whom joined the anti-immigration American Party (Know-Nothings), others the Constitutional Union Party, and still others the newly formed Republicans. As the first major speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Gore held himself out as a living reminder that every vote counts. The election of 1852 would be the last presidential contest in which the Whigs would field a candidate. It was the natural consequence of the Bush Administration policy.". Hale, who like Pierce was from New Hampshire, was the nominee of the remnants of the Free Soil Party, garnering 155,825 votes (5 percent of the total). Gore also decried the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq, saying, "what happened at that prison, it is now clear, is not the result of random acts of a few bad apples. John P. Bush the most dishonest president since Richard Nixon, who resigned the office of the presidency in 1974 following the Watergate scandal.

Pierce won 27 of the 31 states, including Scott's home state of Virginia. During the fiery speech, which lasted more than an hour, Gore called the Bush administration's Iraq war plan "incompetent" and called George W. The total popular vote was 1,601,274 to 1,386,580, or 50.9 percent to 44.1 percent. In the speech, Gore demanded Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, and Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone all resign for encouraging policies that led to the abuse of Iraqi prisoners and fanned hatred of Americans abroad. This proved to be true, as Scott lost every state except Kentucky, Tennessee, Massachusetts, and Vermont. On May 26, 2004, Gore gave a highly critical speech on the Iraq crisis and the Bush Administration. Polk in the 1844 election). election voting controversies.

The Democrats' slogan was "We Polked you in 1844; we shall Pierce you in 1852!" (a reference to the victory of James K. In his speech, Gore stressed the importance of voting and having every vote counted, a point that foreshadowed the 2004 U.S. Scott's advantage as a known war hero was countered by Pierce's service in the same war. In addition, Gore announced that all of the surplus funds in his "Recount Fund" from the 2000 election controversy that resulted in the Supreme Court halting the counting of the ballots, a total of $240,000, will be donated to the Florida Democratic Party. Pierce's likeable personality, plus his helpful obscurity and lack of strongly held positions, helped him prevail over Scott, whose anti-slavery views hurt him in the South. The party's Senate and House committees would each get $1 million, and the party from Gore's home state of Tennessee would receive $250,000. The Whigs' platform was almost indistinguishable from that of the Democrats, reducing the campaign to a contest between the personalities of the two candidates and helping to drive down the turnout rates in the election to their lowest level since 1836. Drawing from his funds left over from his 2000 presidential campaign, Gore pledged to donate $4 million to the Democratic National Committee.

Pierce easily prevailed as Scott—nicknamed "Old Fuss and Feathers"—ran a blundering campaign. On April 28, 2004, Gore announced that he would be donating $6 million to various Democratic Party groups. Pierce's opponent was the Whig candidate, General Winfield Scott of Virginia, whom Pierce served under during the Mexican-American War, and his running mate, Senator (and later Governor) William Alexander Graham of North Carolina. Bush." In March 2004 Gore, along with former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, united behind Kerry as the presumptive Democratic nominee. King of Alabama was chosen as the nominee for Vice President. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place." Gore also urged all Democrats to unite behind their eventual nominee proclaiming, "any one of these candidates is far better than George W. Senator William R. "He played on our fears.

Pierce was nominated unanimously on the 49th ballot on June 5. Gore shouted into the microphone. He also had served in the Mexican-American War, which allowed the party to portray him as a war hero. "He betrayed this country!" Mr. He had never fully articulated his views on slavery, which allowed him to be acceptable to all factions. Bush of betraying the country by using the 9/11 attacks as a justification for the invasion of Iraq. On the 35th ballot, Pierce was put forth as a compromise candidate. On February 9, 2004, on the eve of the Tennessee primary, Gore gave what many consider his harshest criticism of the president yet when he accused George W.

When the balloting for president began, the four candidates deadlocked, with no candidate reaching even a simple majority, much less the required supermajority of two-thirds. The cold weather in New York helped make this speech especially controversial.). Prior to the vote to determine the nominee, a party platform was adopted, opposing any further "agitation" over the slavery issue and supporting the Compromise of 1850 in an effort to unite the various Democratic factions. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere." (However, that day happened to be the coldest day in New York City history. Most of those who had left the party with Martin Van Buren to form the Free Soil Party had returned. Accompanied by slides and projector, Gore slammed the Bush administration's attitude towards global warming saying, "There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. Douglas, William Marcy, James Buchanan and Lewis Cass—for the nomination.
On January 15, 2004, Al Gore gave a major policy address in New York City on climate change and the Bush administration's approach to the environment.

The convention assembled on June 12 in Baltimore, Maryland, with four competing contenders—Stephen A. Gore's endorsement of Dean was helpful to the latter in legitimizing him in the eyes of the establishment faction of the Democratic Party, but it also led the media to dub Dean as the clear front-runner, with the result that his opponents devoted more of their emphasis to opposing him. The Democratic Party nominated Pierce as a "dark horse" candidate during the Democratic National Convention of 1852. Although Gore did receive a small number of votes in New Hampshire and New Mexico, that effort was halted when John Kerry pulled into the lead for the nomination. Benjamin "Bennie" Pierce (1841–1853) died in a tragic railway accident at the age of 12. There was still some effort to encourage write-in votes for Gore in the primaries by a different group of Gore supporters who were separate from the draft movement. (1836) in infancy and Frank Robert Pierce (1839–1843) at the age of four from epidemic typhus. However, that effort largely came to an end when Gore publicly endorsed Vermont Governor Howard Dean (over his former running mate Joe Lieberman) weeks before the first primary of the election cycle.

Two died in childhood—Franklin Pierce, Jr. Despite Gore taking himself out of the race, a handful of his supporters formed a national campaign to "draft" him into running. They had three children. Gore's former running mate, Joe Lieberman quickly announced his own candidacy for the presidency, which he had vowed he would not do if Gore ran. Pierce hated life in Washington, D.C., and encouraged Pierce to resign his Senate seat and return to New Hampshire, which he did in 1841. When he appeared on a 60 Minutes interview, Gore said that he felt if he had run, the focus of the election would be the rematch rather than the issues. Mrs. On December 16, 2002 however, Gore announced that he would not run in 2004, saying that it was time for "fresh faces" and "new ideas" to emerge from the Democrats.

She came from a aristocratic Whig family, and was extremely shy, deeply religious, often ill, and pro-temperance. "Re-elect Gore!" was a common slogan among many Democrats who felt the former Vice President had been unfairly cheated out of the presidency, on the grounds that he had won the popular vote and (in the opinion of many) should have won the Electoral College vote. Appleton, who was born in 1806 and died in 1863, was Pierce's opposite. Bush in the 2004 United States Presidential Election. On November 19, 1834, Pierce married Jane Means Appleton, the daughter of a former president of Bowdoin College. Initially, Al Gore was touted as a logical opponent of George W. He was a member of the New Hampshire State constitutional convention in 1850 and served as its president. Gore's group, Generation Investment Management, was created to assist the growing demand for an investment style which can bring returns by blending traditional equity research with a focus on more intangible non-financial factors such as social and environmental responsibility and corporate governance.

He served in the Mexican-American War as a colonel and brigadier general. In late 2004, it was announced that Al Gore had launched and will chair an investment firm to seek out companies taking a responsible view on big global issues like climate change. He was district attorney for New Hampshire, and declined the appointment as Attorney General of the United States tendered by President James Polk. The new network will not have political leanings, Gore said, but will serve as an "independent voice" for a target audience of people between 18 and 34 "who want to learn about the world in a voice they recognize and a view they recognize as their own." The network was relaunched under the name Current on August 1, 2005. After his service in the Senate, Pierce resumed the practice of law in Concord. On May 4, 2004, INdTV Holdings, a company co-founded by Gore and Joel Hyatt, purchased cable news channel NewsWorld International from Vivendi Universal. Senate Committee on Pensions during the 26th Congress. Tiffany Shlain, the awards' founder and chairwoman said, "It's just one of those instances someone did amazing work for three decades as congressman, senator and vice president and it got spun around into this political mess," Shlain said.

He was chairman of the U.S. The Webby Awards, which are widely hailed as the Oscars of the web, "wanted to set the record straight" about Al Gore and the Internet once and for all. He was elected by the New Hampshire General Court as a Democrat to the United States Senate, serving from March 4, 1837, to February 28, 1842, when he resigned. In May 2005, Gore was awarded a lifetime achievement award for three decades of contributions to the Internet. At the time he was only 27 years old, the youngest representative at the time. Although Gore said the movie was a far-fetched example of global warming, he said the movie would escalate public debate on the issue. Pierce was elected as a Democrat to the 23rd and 24th Congresses(March 4, 1833–March 3, 1837). In the summer of 2004, Gore teamed up with MoveOn.org, to promote the new scientific fiction film, The Day After Tomorrow.

He served in the House from 1829 to 1833, and as Speaker from 1832 to 1833. In a statement after the three-hour session, the commission said he was candid and forthcoming, and it thanked him for his "continued cooperation." [15]. Pierce began his political career in 1828, when he was elected to the lower house of the New Hampshire General Court, the New Hampshire House of Representatives. On April 10, 2004, Gore met with the 9-11 Commission in private to give his testimony on what his administration did to prevent terror attacks. He was admitted to the bar and began a law practice in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1827. Gore also continued to visit campuses across the nation lecturing on issues such as race, media, and democracy. After graduation, in 1826 he entered a law school in Northampton, Massachusetts, studying under Governor Levi Woodbury and later Judges Samuel Howe and Edmund Parker in Amherst, New Hampshire. On the political front, Gore kept his promise of staying involved in public debate when he offered his criticism and advice to the Bush Administration on key topics such as the Occupation of Iraq, USA Patriot Act, and environmental issues, most notably global warming.

In his second year of college, his grades were the lowest in his class; he changed his habits and graduated in 1824 third in his class. In 2003 Gore joined the board of directors of Apple Computer. Hale. Also, during this time period Gore guest starred on several programs such as The Late Show with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live, appearing much more relaxed and funnier as a private citizen than he did while holding public office. Prentiss, and his future political rival John P. Less than two weeks later, on October 2, he made a speech on Bush's handling of the economy to the Brookings Institution. Stowe, Sargent S. On September 23, Gore delivered a speech on the impending War with Iraq and the War on Terrorism that generated a fair amount of commentary.

He also met Calvin E. Following the November 5, 2002 midterm elections Gore re-emerged into the public eye with a 14-city book tour and a well-orchestrated "full Gore" media blitz which included a pair of policy speeches. There he met writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, with whom he formed a lasting friendship, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In late 2001, Al Gore became a Senior Advisor to Google and Vice Chairman of Los Angeles-based financial firm Metropolitan West Financial LLC. Later that year he was transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy to prepare for college and later that year entered Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he participated in literary, political, and debating clubs. Following his election loss, a bearded Gore accepted visiting professorships at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Middle Tennessee State University, University of California Los Angeles, and Fisk University. Pierce attended school at Hillsborough Center and moved to the Hancock Academy in Hancock at the age of 11; he was transferred to Francestown Academy in spring 1820. For other information, see: Al Gore controversies.

Pierce had six older and two younger siblings, four brothers and three sisters. presidential election, 2000. His mother was Anna Kendrick. For more information on the 2000 election, see: U.S. Pierce's father was Benjamin Pierce, a frontier farmer who became a Revolutionary War soldier, state militia general, and two-time governor of New Hampshire. For more information on Al Gore's 2000 campaign, see: Al Gore presidential campaign, 2000. The site of his birth is now under Lake Franklin Pierce. He played himself again in another episode after the campaign was over.

Pierce was born in 1804 in a log cabin near Hillsborough, New Hampshire, part of the Transcendental Generation. While running for president in 2000, Al Gore was used as a voice actor for the television show Futurama. . Gore lost his home state of Tennessee, making him the first presidential candidate since South Dakota Democratic Senator George McGovern in 1972 to lose his home state in a presidential election. In addition, Pierce was hounded by guilt, temptation, and just plain bad luck.". history (until the 2004 election), he lost the election by five electoral votes (with one DC Elector, pledged to Gore, casting a blank ballot to protest the District's lack of representation in Congress). And yet he was a timid man with a shallow, rigid, old-fashioned mind which could not cope with a changing America. Although Gore won the nationwide popular vote by more than 500,000 votes, receiving the most votes of any candidate in U.S.

And he was genuinely religious. However, this has led to new controversies, because of the security weaknesses of the computer systems, the lack of paper-based methods of secure verification, and the necessity to rely on the trustworthiness of the manufacturers whose employees also count those votes. He was one of the most popular men in New Hampshire, polite and thoughtful, easy and good at the political game, charming and fine and handsome. Concern about the possible disenfranchisement of voters in the Florida vote led to widespread calls for electoral reform in the United States, and ultimately to the passage of the Help America Vote Act, which authorized the United States federal government to provide funds to the states to replace their mechanical voting equipment with electronic voting equipment. To his credit, he loved his wife and reshaped himself so that he could put up with her aristocratic, nervous ways and show her true affection. Congress accepted Florida's electoral delegation, only after a challenge to the Florida electors was presented in the congressional chambers on January 6, 2001 by members of the Congressional Black Caucus who could not secure the signature of one Senator to bring the challenge to a debate. Kunhardt wrote in The American President what many historians believe about Pierce: that he was "a good man who didn't understand his own shortcomings. Some commentators still see such irregularities, and the legal maneuvering around the recounts as casting doubt on the legitimacy of the vote; as a matter of law, however, the issue was settled when the U.S.

He died in 1869 from cirrhosis. Reports later surfaced that many overseas voters attempted to vote only after learning of the closeness of the Florida vote. He destroyed his reputation by declaring support for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Both sides contended that the votes were cast after election day, and since many of the envelopes did not have cancelled stamps, it was not clear when the votes were cast. After losing the Democratic nomination, Pierce continued his lifelong struggle with alcoholism as his marriage to Jane Means Appleton Pierce fell apart. And while the Gore camp, fought (with some success) to keep overseas absentee votes out in counties thought to be pro-Bush, Bush operatives similarly (albeit wihile drawing less attention to their efforts) prevented the counting of overseas absentee votes in strong Democratic counties. Abandoned by his own party, he was not renominated at the 1856 presidential election, and was replaced by James Buchanan. [14] It is unclear what effect, if any, this may have had.

Pierce's credibility was further damaged when several of his foreign ministers issued the Ostend Manifesto. [13] During the numerous recounts (which made the phrase "hanging chads" infamous in the American vocabulary), there were also allegations of both pro-Bush and pro-Gore tampering by low-level operatives in the controversial counties. Pierce's popularity in the North went down sharply after he came out in favor of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, repealing the Missouri Compromise and reopening the question of the expansion of slavery in the West. Some have thought that this depressed the pro-Bush vote in that area -- although none have shown any proof that voters who were at home and saw the networks call the election failed to go vote in the last 8 minutes. history. This happened before the polls closed in 10 small Florida counties in the heavily Republican western panhandle which are in the Central Time Zone, and thus closed at 7 PM Central Time (8 PM Eastern). His good looks and inoffensive personality caused him to make many friends, but he did not do what was necessary to avoid the impending American Civil War, thus giving him his reputation as one of the worst presidents in U.S. Many Bush supporters, however, believed that an unfair advantage was given to Gore when all major news networks, early on, prematurely projected Gore as the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes at 7:52 PM Eastern Time.

He became the youngest president up until that time. Irregularities on the Bush side included the notorious Palm Beach "butterfly ballots", which produced an unexpectedly large number of votes for third-party candidate Patrick Buchanan, and a purge of some 50,000 alleged felons from the Florida voting rolls that included many voters who were eligible to vote under Florida law. King won in a landslide, beating Winfield Scott by a 50 to 44 percent margin in the popular vote and 254 to 42 in the electoral vote. Several irregularities are thought to have favored Bush; others may have given Gore an edge. In the presidential election, Pierce and his running mate William R. The Florida election has been closely scrutinized since the election. Later, he was nominated for president as a "dark horse" candidate on the 49th ballot at the 1852 Democratic National Convention. [11][12].

His private law practice in his home state of New Hampshire was so successful that he turned down several important positions. Gore would have won given a full recount of the state. Later, Pierce took part in the Mexican-American War, becoming a brigadier general. Gore, but that Mr. House of Representatives and Senate. Bush would have won using the partial recount method of 4 strongly Democratic areas advocated by Mr. He was a "doughface" (a Northerner with Southern sympathies) who served in the U.S. news media organizations indicated that Mr.

Pierce was a Democrat and the first president to be born in the 19th century. Following the election, a subsequent recount conducted by various U.S. Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804–October 8, 1869) was an American politician and the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. Gore strongly disagreed with the Court's decision, but decided that "for the sake of our unity of the people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession." He had previously made a concession phone call to Bush the night of the election, but quickly retracted it after learning just how close the election was. Signed Kansas-Nebraska Act. Gore voted 7 to 2 to declare the ongoing recount procedure unconstitutional, on the grounds that it was not being carried out statewide, and 5 to 4 to ban further recounts using other procedures. John Archibald Campbell - 1853. Al Gore publicly conceded the election after the Supreme Court in Bush v.