#President Pierce

[deadpresidents]

Favorite clothing a President has worn?

That's kind of an odd question. I don't really rate the clothing that Presidents wear. I was going to say any sort of jacket that Franklin Pierce could stick his hand in during portraits like Napoleon:

But to be controversial, I'll go with this:

(There's actually a Wikipedia page for "Barack Obama tan suit controversy", by the way.)

[esilher]

I just wanted to smile and try to make you smile…a bit. Now that i look at this, it’s quite a chaotic team…😅

[starlight-tequila]

I'm probably extremely right and extremely wrong

[pranklinfierce]

Since like 11* people on Instagram either commented or SU'd when I posted this in a story, this image proved compelling enough to share elsewhere.

This is a real video that you can watch here

I immediately had too many thoughts to keep to myself so these are my notes:

*it used to say 9 but then more people SU'd

[msachillelaurosfunnels]

I LOVE MY WIFE!!! but it's Jane and Franklin Pierce... :33

Credits to uhhhhhhhh idk I found this template on Pinterest... 😭😭

[the-voldsoy]

Happy Ides of March gang

[anachronous-cetacea]

In love with drawing SSA monster AU！🥰

credit to @doodle-blight for character designs and art styles！they are wonderful🥹

Glowing cynocephaly James Monroe btw （designed by me）

[deadpresidents]

If you don't mind me asking, who is your favorite president? What about your least favorite?

My favorite is Lyndon B. Johnson. Besides LBJ, while I enjoy reading and learning about all of the Presidents, I tend to find the more obscure Presidents more interesting. I wouldn't necessarily call them my "favorites", but I do tend to enjoy discovering more about Presidents like Franklin Pierce, Chester Arthur, James Garfield, etc. If you go through my archives, you'll find more pieces about the least-known Presidents than the most well-known -- especially when it comes to Pierce, who I have written about frequently. The first thing that I wrote about Presidential history and shared publicly was a short piece in 2004 for a website the New Hampshire Historical Society had created for the bicentennial of Franklin Pierce's birth. After years of studying the Presidents, I just feel like I learn more new things about the obscure Presidents as opposed to, say, George Washington or Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln, who I feel like everybody already knows so much about. Over the past two or three years, I've also started to really like and appreciate Gerald Ford even more than I previously did. John Quincy Adams has always been near the top of the list, too.

As for least favorite, I think it's pretty clear that it's Donald Trump. I'm guessing that is the default answer for most people (well...I guess "most people" other than the 77 million+ American idiots who voted to send him back to the White House). Other than Trump, I'm not a big fan of Woodrow Wilson. I understand that he was an important President and some historians even argue that he was a great President (I do not -- I think he's tremendously overrated), but I don't enjoy reading about him. In 2013, Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg wrote an excellent biography about him that is simply titled Wilson (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) and easily it's in the top tier of all-time Presidential biographies. I'm glad it exists, I would recommend that everybody check it out if they get the opportunity, and I'm glad that I read it because it gives me the excuse to skip other Wilson books since Berg's biography is such a definitive work.

[angelkeitai]

all the presidents (+a first lady) that have been in my dreams so far:

franklin pierce (3 times)

jane pierce (1 time)

theodore roosevelt (1 time)

millard fillmore (1 time)

john tyler (1 time, in which he threw me off of a staircase)

james k polk (1 time)

andrew jackson (1 time)

jimmy carter (1 time)

woodrow wilson (briefly mentioned)

[snailpilled-and-based]

For @pranklinfierce because we're literally Woodrow and Pierce but not really 🙏

[pranklinfierce]

It's pierce's 220th birthday!

My reference is this blurry image. I'm also in Concord as I type this; I drew the portrait on the way

I'll replace my current pinned post with this. I like the old one because I'm happy with the rendering, but it's very irrelevant.

[mercurymarss]

triden angst animatic

[msachillelaurosfunnels]

The Jacksonians

Designs by @doodle-blight

[postcards-from-richard-nixon]

"The President-Elect finally left Concord on Monday, February 14, and stayed in Boston with Mrs. Pierce until Wednesday. Then he bade her a sad farewell, ordered a bouquet and a bracelet to be delivered to her later in the day and set forth to his great responsibility with Webster and O'Neil. He had proudly planned to have Bennie with him on the great day so that he could witness his father's triumph and remember it ever afterward. Now he must go through the ordeal alone— and with a sense of guilt."

—Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills by Roy F. Nichols, Second Edition 1958, Pg. 231.

[anteabbie]

The three genres of music

[deadpresidents]

Your post yesterday about Franklin Pierce and what I've read about him being popular in Congress makes me think he would have been a really good hang.

Pierce was enormously popular with his fellow legislators and does seem like he would have been a blast to drink with...

...At least until somebody accidentally mentioned their kids and everyone got uncomfortable while Pierce drunkenly said, "My wife thinks God gruesomely crushed our only surviving child's skull right in front of our eyes in a train derailment before my inauguration so that I wouldn't be distracted when I became President."

Things would get pretty awkward after that. I mean, it's not like they could find a song on the jukebox to try to get the vibe back. Everybody would just keep trying to change the subject by mentioning things like, "So...how about that Ostend Manifesto?" as Pierce mumbled stuff like, "She keeps writing letters to our dead son and putting them in the White House fireplace like it's a mailbox for ghosts."