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.

When Territorial Governor Andrew Reeder objected, he was fired by President Pierce, a Doughface.

He served as the United States Secretary of War under Democratic President Franklin Pierce.

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.

Determined to offer the repeal to congress that Monday but reluctant to act without Pierce ’ s commitment, Douglas arranged through Secretary of War Davis to meet with President Pierce on Sunday even though Pierce generally refrained from conducting any business on a Sunday.

Hostilities between the factions reached a state of low-intensity civil war, which was damaging to President 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.

* December 2 – Jane Pierce, 15th First Lady of the United States and wife of 14th President of the United States Franklin Pierce ( b. 1806 )

* President Franklin Pierce ( United States )

** Barbara Pierce Bush, daughter of U. S. President George W. Bush

* October 8 – Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States ( b. 1804 )

* 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 )

* January 24 – U. S. President Franklin Pierce declares the new Free-State Topeka government in Bleeding Kansas to be in rebellion.

President Franklin Pierce appointed Dallas in 1856 as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Britain, where he served until 1861.

He did not run for reelection and, instead, was nominated as Minister to Spain by President Franklin Pierce but declined.

Following his tenure in Congress, Hendricks was appointed Commissioner of the General Land Office by President Franklin Pierce and served there from 1855 until 1859.

Formed out of Thurston County on December 22, 1852, by the legislature of Oregon Territory, it was named for U. S. President Franklin Pierce.

The county was formed out of territory within Thurston County on December 22, 1852, by the Oregon Territory legislature, and was named after Alabama resident William R. King, who had just been elected Vice President of the United States under President Franklin Pierce.

In all, the Senate signed a check for $46.7 billion, which not only included the extra $3.5 billion requested the week before by President Kennedy, but tacked on $754 million more than the President had asked for.

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

It was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H. W. Bush, and later amended with changes effective January 1, 2009.

On September 25, 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 ( ADAAA ).

The President of Germany, Horst Köhler, himself urged judicial review of the constitutionality of the Luftsicherheitsgesetz after he signed it into law in 2005.

The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ) was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 23, 1971, the largest land claims settlement in United States history.

They were signed into law by President John Adams.

The treaty was then ratified by the Senate and signed into law by the President.

In a July 2, 2011 editorial the New York Times opined, " The Defense of Marriage Act was enacted in 1996 as an election-year wedge issue, signed by President Bill Clinton in one of his worst policy moments.

in negotiating a peace agreement was signed in Tripoli in February 2007, between President Bozizé and the head of the Front démocratique du people centrafricain ( FDPC ) rebel movement ( who is also said to have close ties to Union of Democratic Forces for Unity ( UFDR ), the rebel group that seized several cities in northern C. A. R.

Continuing the coalition's free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China ( signed under the previous administration of Ricardo Lagos ), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a Latin American nation ; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007.

In September 2005, President Ricardo Lagos signed into law several constitutional amendments passed by Congress.

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger signed an agreement to reinstate Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps ( NROTC ) programs at Columbia for the first time in more than 40 years on May 26, 2011.

Under the Global and All-Inclusive Agreement, signed on 17 December 2002, in Pretoria, there was to be one President and four Vice-Presidents, one from the government, one from the Rally for Congolese Democracy, one from the MLC, and one from civil society.

* Djibouti President Hassan Gouled Aptidon paid an official visit to Ethiopia in October 1991, when a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation was signed between the two countries.

* 1993 – The North American Free Trade Agreement is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.

The Uniform Code of Military Justice, passed by Congress in 1950 and signed by President Harry S Truman, established the policies and procedures for discharging service members.

* 2010 – The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.

In power, he has made alliances with fellow Latin American socialists, namely Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, and signed Nicaragua up to the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas.

* 1861 – Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.

Although President Obiang signed a national anti-torture decree in 2006 to ban all forms of abuse and improper treatment in Equatorial Guinea and commissioned the renovation and modernization of Black Beach prison in 2007 to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners, human rights abuses continue. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International among other non-governmental organizations have documented severe human rights abuses in prisons, including torture, beatings, unexplained deaths and illegal detention.

* Djibouti President Hassan Gouled Aptidon paid an official visit to Ethiopia in October 1991, when a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation was signed between the two countries.

United States Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones.