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S. In 1836 he was elected by the New Hampshire General Court as a Democrat to the United States Senate serving from March 4 1837 to February 28 1842 when he resigned.
They defeated the Whig Party ticket of Winfield Scott and William A. The historian David Potter concludes that the Ostend Manifesto and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were "the two great calamities of the Franklin Pierce administration. As president he made many divisive decisions which were widely criticized and earned him a reputation as one of the worst presidents in U.