2-356-060 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, (c1880). Pierce (1804-1869) was president from 1853-1857. He is widely regarded as having been one of the least effective presidents and was not selected by his party, the Democrats, to run for a second term. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.