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In 1855 President Franklin Pierce appointed him colonel of the new 2nd U. S. Cavalry ( the unit that preceded the modern 5th U. S .), a new regiment, which he organized.
A miniature civil war in Bleeding Kansas led pro-South Presidents Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan to attempt a forced admission of Kansas as a slave state.
Though he was not enamored of the party's presidential nominee, Franklin Pierce, Johnson campaigned for him, but he failed to carry Tennessee.
* Benjamin Franklin " Hawkeye " Pierce, the fictional character from the M * A * S * H novels, film, and television program
* 1853 – President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts.
He served as the United States Secretary of War under Democratic President Franklin Pierce.
In the weeks leading up to the presidential election of 1852, he campaigned in numerous Southern states for Democratic candidates Franklin Pierce and William R. King.
Having served as secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce, he also knew that the South lacked the military and naval resources necessary to defend itself if war were to break out.
Toward this end, they arranged to meet with President Franklin Pierce to ensure that the issue would be declared a test of party loyalty within the Democratic Party.
Franklin Pierce also holds down the giant's beard as Stephen A. Douglas shoves a black man down his throat.
New Hampshire has produced one president: Franklin Pierce.
* 1804 – Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States ( d. 1869 )
In 1854, however, President Franklin Pierce terminated a treaty with Denmark with the consent of the Senate alone.
The Whig Party straddled the issue and sank to its death after the overwhelming electoral defeat by Franklin Pierce in the 1852 presidential election.
Attempting to repeat their earlier successes, the Whigs nominated popular General Winfield Scott, who lost decisively to the Democrats ' Franklin Pierce.
In 2010, a Siena College Research Institute survey of 238 presidential scholars ranked Harding 41st among the 43 men who had been president, between Franklin Pierce ( 40th ) and James Buchanan ( 42nd ); Andrew Johnson was adjudged the worst.
* December 2 – Jane Pierce, 15th First Lady of the United States and wife of 14th President of the United States Franklin Pierce ( b. 1806 )
* November 15 – Franklin Pierce Adams, American Poet, columnist ( d. 1960 )
* President Franklin Pierce ( United States )
* October 8 – Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States ( b. 1804 )
* November 2 – U. S. presidential election, 1852: Democrat Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire defeats Whig Winfield Scott of Virginia.
* March 4 – Franklin Pierce succeeds Millard Fillmore as the 14th President of the United States.
* November 23 – Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States ( d. 1869 )

Franklin and won
Ten governors have been major-party candidates for president, and six-including Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt-have won.
It won the 1994 Benjamin Franklin Award in the field of Religion.
His opponent Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1940 election with 55 % of the popular vote and 85 % of the electoral vote.
At the time, after the suggestion of local school teacher Eliza Rich, the townsfolk thought it was as patriotic a name as Union and Franklin, since the United States won a large victory there.
Franklin and his wife Flora go to Las Vegas because she won a slogan contest.
* Ronnie Franklin, jockey who won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes aboard Spectacular Bid in 1979
* His book Father and Son partially inspired Oscar and Lucinda, a novel by Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award.
He has recorded all seven books in the Harry Potter series, and as a narrator he has won two Grammy Awards, seven Grammy Nominations and a record ten Audie Awards including " Audio Book of the Year 2004 ," " Best Children's Narrator 2001 / 2005 / 2007 / 2008 ," " Best Children's Audio Book 2005 ," two Benjamin Franklin Awards from the Independent Book Publishers Association ( one of these was in 2001 for Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban ) and twenty three Audio File Earphone Awards.
He also won the institute's Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal.
Evans, who was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania, served in the Philippines and in the United States prior to World War I, during which he won the Navy Cross and other awards for the distinction of his service in the Marine Brigade of the American Expeditionary Force in France.
In his will, Benjamin Franklin left William virtually none of his wealth, except some territory in Nova Scotia, stating that had Britain won the war, the elder Franklin would have had no wealth to leave to his son anyway.
Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Australian author Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize, the 1989 Miles Franklin Award, and was shortlisted for The Best of the Booker.
Aretha Franklin won a Grammy for her rendition of " A House Is Not a Home ", and Stevie Wonder and Beyoncé won a Grammy for their cover of " So Amazing ".
Conference members have won eight NCAA team titles: Gettysburg women's lacrosse ( 2011 ), Haverford men's cross country ( 2010 ), Franklin & Marshall women's lacrosse ( 2007, 2009 ), Ursinus field hockey ( 2006 ) and Washington men's lacrosse ( 1998 ), and Washington men's tennis ( 1994, 1997 ).
Cocke won the Eckert-Mauchly Award in 1985, ACM Turing Award in 1987, the National Medal of Technology in 1991 and the National Medal of Science in 1994, The Franklin Institute's Certificate of Merit in 1996, the Seymour Cray Computer Science and Engineering Award in 1999, and the The Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2000.
Kim Scott won the 2000 Miles Franklin Award for his novel “ Benang '.
In the United States, the liberalism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt won mass support and deprived socialists of any chance of gaining ground.
When Phillips lost to Aretha Franklin, the latter presented the trophy to Phillips, saying she should have won it instead.
He completed his research in 1826, and won an award (" Premium No. 4 ") from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia two years later, who noted that Boyden's annealed cast iron specimen No. 363, containing an assortment of buckles, bits, and other castings, were " remarkable for their smoothness and maleability " and " the first attempt in this country to anneal cast iron for general purposes.
It was first published in 1994 under the pseudonym Helen Demidenko and won the Miles Franklin Award the following year before becoming the subject of a major Australian literary controversy about the author's false claims of Ukrainian ethnicity.
The deception was revealed by the Australian media when her novel won the Miles Franklin Award, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Australia.

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