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Jane Pierce

1806 - 1863

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Jane Means Pierce (née Appleton; March 12, 1806 – December 2, 1863) was the first lady of the United States from 1853 to 1857, being married to Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States. Born in Hampton, New Hampshire, she married Pierce, then a congressman, in 1834 despite her family's misgivings. She refused to live in Washington, D.C., and in 1842, she convinced her husband to retire from politics. He sought the Democratic presidential nomination without her knowledge in 1852 and was elected president later that year. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jane Pierce is the 14,058th most popular politician (up from 14,902nd in 2019), the 6,534th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,316th in 2019) and the 523rd most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jane Pierce ranks 14,058 out of 19,576. Before her are Liu He, Julie Payette, Azzeddine Laraki, Gillis Bildt, Sankhenre Sewadjtu, and Ariarathes IX of Cappadocia. After her are Andrei Kozyrev, Tang Jingsong, Stephen Lekapenos, Grigory Gershuni, Pedro Vélez, and Dimitrie Brătianu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Jane Pierce ranks 47. Before her are Julius Hübner, Jovan Sterija Popović, Georg Adolf Erman, Stand Watie, Fabre Geffrard, and Aristeidis Moraitinis. After her are Michele Amari, Ivan Kireyevsky, Matthew Fontaine Maury, William Fothergill Cooke, Henry Kellett, and Gaetano Bedini. Among people deceased in 1863, Jane Pierce ranks 42. Before her are Ludwig Emil Grimm, Robert Gould Shaw, Nikolai Turczaninow, Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, and Edward Robinson. After her are Prince Frederick of Prussia, Josephine Kablick, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Alfred Moquin-Tandon, Andrei Mureșanu, and Michel Garicoïts.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jane Pierce ranks 6,535 out of 20,380. Before her are Ted DiBiase (1954), Mykelti Williamson (1960), Anya Taylor-Joy (1996), Roy Thinnes (1938), William Jordan (1898), and Lizabeth Scott (1922). After her are Freddy Rodriguez (1975), Thom Barry (1950), Gary Peacock (1935), Richard Quine (1920), Yusuf Estes (1944), and Charles King (1895).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Jane Pierce ranks 523. Before her are Edward Douglass White (1845), Edward Everett (1794), Alger Hiss (1904), Eric Shinseki (1942), Sargent Shriver (1915), and Mike Espy (1953). After her are Jubal Early (1816), Harry Cohn (1891), Julian Castro (1974), Winfield Scott Hancock (1824), Eugene McCarthy (1916), and Joe Lieberman (1942).

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