Later in life, his wife Jane constantly wrote letters to their dead son, Bennie, and he befriended Nathaniel Hawthorne while attending Bowdoin College.
Later in life, his wife Jane constantly wrote letters to their dead son, Bennie, and he befriended Nathaniel Hawthorne while attending Bowdoin College. A brigadier general in the Mexican-American War, his friend Jefferson Davis eventually served as his Secretary of War after he and his running mate Rufus King defeated the Whig candidate Winfield Scott. For 10 points, identify this namesake of a college in New Hampshire, whose victory in the 1852 election made him our fourteenth president.
Later in life, his wife Jane constantly wrote letters to their dead son, Bennie, and he befriended Nathaniel Hawthorne while attending Bowdoin College.
Franklin {Pierce}