Jane Pierce
Jane Means Appleton Pierce (March 12, 1806 in Hampton , New Hampshire , † December 2, 1863 in Andover , Massachusetts ) was the wife of the 14th US President Franklin Pierce and the First Lady of the United States from 1853 to 1857.
Life
Jane Pierce's father was Jesse Appleton. When he died, she moved to Amherst , New Hampshire with her mother . There Jane Appleton met the young lawyer Franklin Pierce. The two only married many years later. At the time of the wedding, the bride was 28 years old.
She died of tuberculosis in Andover on December 2, 1863. She is buried at the side of her husband in the Old North Cemetery in Concord .
literature
- Elizabeth Lorelei Thacker-Estrade: Margaret Taylor, Abigail Filmore, and Jane Pierce: Three Antebellum Presidents' Ladies. In Katherine AS Sibley (Ed.): A Companion to First Ladies. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester 2016, ISBN 978-1-118-73222-9 , pp. 176-196.
Web links
Commons : Jane Pierce - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Biography on the White House website (archived)
- Jane Pierce in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pierce, Jane |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Means Appleton, Jane (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American First Lady (1853-1857) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hampton , New Hampshire , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1863 |
| Place of death | Andover , Massachusetts , United States |