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Fourteenth U.S. President (1853–1857) and New Hampshire lawyer whose signing of the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 intensified sectional conflict over the expansion of slavery.
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Franklin Pierce ranks #245 of 257 in the Lawyer ranking, behind Ann Coulter, ahead of Michael Cohen.
Consistently ranked poor president, Kansas-Nebraska Act association and sectional crisis failures dominate consensus.
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