When Franklin Pierce went to college in 1820, his classmates in a literary society included Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His father’s role as governor drew Pierce into politics. He was a U.S. House member, a U.S. senator and the 14th president from 1853-1857. He lived here in 1842-1848. This house in Concord, New Hampshire is now called the Franklin Pierce Manse. His boyhood home, built in 1804 by his father, is located in Hillsborough.