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Title: A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1907
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: United States. President Richardson, James D. (James Daniel), 1843-1914
Subjects: Presidents -- United States United States -- Politics and government United States -- History Sources
Publisher: (New York) : Bureau of National Literature and Art
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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fore, as well for the purpose of removing all doubt as tothe legality of such call as of establishing a precedent of what is deemeda proper mode of convening the Senate, I, Millard Fillmore, President ofthe United States, have considered it to be my duty to issue this niyproclamation, revoking said call and hereby declaring that an extraor-dinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene forthe transaction of business at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, onFriday, the 4th day of March next, at 12 oclock at noon of that day, ofwhich all who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of thatbody are hereby required to take notice. Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washing-ton, this 25th day of February, A. D. 1853, and of the lude-LSEAI..J pgjujgQce of the United States the seventy-seventh. MlIvIvARD FILI^MORi. By the President: Kdward Everett, Secretary of State. Franklin Pierce March 4, 1853, to March 4, 1857 M P—vol, V—13 193
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COPYRIGHT 1901. THE GRAVURE COMPANY OK AMKRICA. ^/^i^/^ ci^^ Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce was born in Hillsboro, N. H., November 23, 1804.Was the fourth son of Benjamin and Anna Pierce. His father was acitizen of Massachusetts; was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, at-taining the rank of captain and brevet major. After peace was declaredhe removed from Massachusetts to New Hampshire and located nearwhat is now Hillsboro. His first wife was Elizabeth Andrews, who diedat an early age. His second wife, the mother of Franklin Pierce, wasAnna Kendrick, of Amherst, N. H. He was sheriff of his county, amember of the State legislature and of the governors council, and wastwice chosen governor of his State (as a Democrat), first in 1827 and againin 1829. For many years he was declared to be the most influentialman in New Hampshire. He died in 1839. Franklin was given anacademic education in well-known institutions at Hancock, Francestown,and Exeter, and in 1820 was sent to Bowdoin Col

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