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Volume 3 Number 190 First Ladies: Jane Pierce Lead: For Jane Pierce the White House was an ever-present dread. Tag: A Moment in Time with Dan Roberts. Content: Franklin and Jane Pierce were a study in contrasts. He was a tall, robust, physically vigorous person, addicted to glad handing New Hampshire politics. She was shy, frail, deeply religious and hated politics. They met one day when both were students at Bowdoin College in Maine and Franklin rescued the frightened girl during a powerful thunderstorm. There began a long courtship which ended when she married then Congressman Pierce in 1834. Mrs. Pierce's health was never very good, and more often than not she remained home when the Congressman went to Washington. The couple had three sons. One died in infancy, the second at the age of four, and thereafter Jane concentrated much of her time, attention, and emotional investment in their surviving child, Bennie. After distinguished service in the Mexican War, Franklin Pierce declined a return to politics and focused on a lucrative law practice in Concord. As far as Jane was concerned, that was fine and life seemed to improve for the family, that is, until a deadlocked Democratic Convention nominated Pierce for the Presidency in 1852. When she heard the news she fainted, and later said she prayed he would lose. Perhaps the defining moment in their relationship occurred two months before the inauguration. Returning from Boston an axle of the train on which they were riding broke and cars tumbled down the steep embankment. Franklin and Jane were roughed up but Bennie was crushed under a beam. Guilt and grief washed over the couple and, given Jane's disposition, Bennie's death clouded what would already have been a somber occasion. Pierce entered the White House, but Jane remained in New Hampshire for some time. After arriving in Washington she was hardly engaged as an active First Lady. Capital insiders considered her an invalid. After Pierce was denied his party's nomination in 1856, the only elected U.S. President to be so rejected, they returned home, where during the Civil War Franklin Pierce earned widespread political disdain because of his opposition to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort. Jane died in 1863. At the University of Richmond, this is Dan Roberts. Resources Boller, Paul F., Jr. Presidential Wives. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1988. Holloway, Laura Carter. The Ladies of the White House. New York, NY: 1963. Nichols, Roy F. Franklin Pierce. Philadelphia, PA: 1958. Copyright 2016 by Dan Roberts Enterprises, Inc. .

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