Deliberations held in Belgium would prove embarrassing to him, and this man's Secretary of War would go on to serve in a higher office for another country.
This man's government withdrew recognition from a government that would be defeated at the Second Battle of Rivas by Costa Ricans and mercenaries supported by Cornelius Vanderbilt. Deliberations held in Belgium would prove embarrassing to him, and this man's Secretary of War would go on to serve in a higher office for another country. One piece of legislation that he signed was designed to open up land for a continental railroad, but the aftermath of the signing saw Preston Brooks' caning of Charles Sumner as well as the Pottawatomie Massacre. Who is this man, who appointed Jefferson Davis to his cabinet, and, for 10 points, presided over the drafting of a document stating plans to annex Cuba, the Ostend Manifesto, signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act and lost the 1856 Democratic nomination to James Buchanan?
This man's government withdrew recognition from a government that would be defeated at the Second Battle of Rivas by Costa Ricans and mercenaries supported by Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Franklin {Pierce}