Franklin Pierce
1804 – 1869
Fourteenth President of the United States
(1853 – 1857)
Lies buried in nearby Minot enclosure. Native son of New Hampshire, graduate of Bowdoin College, lawyer, effective political leader, Congressman and U.S. Senator, Mexican War veteran, courageous advocate of States’ Rights, he was popularly known as “Young Hickory of the Granite Hills.”
Marker is on N State Street, on the left when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
