FLOTUS – Jane Means Appleton Pierce

A.K.A.: Jane Pierce

D.O.B.: March 12, 1806

P.O.B.: Hampton, New Hampshire

Relationship to POTUS: Wife of Franklin Pierce

5 facts:

• Lost all three sons when they were young and saw one get killed in a train wreck

• Did not want her husband to enter politics at all and blamed him for the death of their sons

• Was very petite, depressed and frail

• Loved reading

• Pro-temperance, she was entirely different from her hard-drinking husband

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