Worst Presidents: Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)

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Franklin Pierce also has a bad reputation in Kansas for deliberately turning his back on the territory during Bleeding Kansas.

Dan of KS 6:37PM April 29, 2012

You people supporting Pierce are fools. This is the guy who ran over an old lady while driving a horse and buggy.....drunk.
He's also related to a certain president who may one day be on this list.

Baz of NC 1:05AM March 06, 2012

Whatever, Pierce rocks!

Poppy of TX 10:13PM March 02, 2012

Pierce had personal tragedy, losing 3 sons before he became president; none reached the age of 12.
As a couple with wife Jane, they were our most beautiful President and First Lady, IMO.

oddsox 1:36PM February 21, 2012

This list must have been compiled by liberals. Pierce did the right thing expanding the country. Here is my list of the 10 worst presidents:
1. Barrack Hussein Obama, Never saw a crisis he could not make worse.
2. Jimmy Carter, made a shambles out of our economy.
3. Woodrow Wilson, a clueless liberal, politically inept in both foreign and domestic policy.
4. Richard Nixon, thought he was above the law
5. Lyndon Johnson, proved he was above the law.
6. jack Kenedy, started the Arms Race, was on a first name basis with every prostitiute in the D.C. area.
7.FRanklin Roosevelt, ordered the 7th fleet to Pearl Harbor where they were sitting ducks. Abandoned our army in the philipines (SEE BATAAN DEATH MARCH), relied on Winston Churchill to make his war decisions for him.
8. Herbert Hoover, clueless about the depression
9. Thomas Jefferson, left our country so woefully unprepared the British would have been fools not start a war in 1812.
10.last but not least Harding, who gave kennedy a run for his money in the prostitute department.

Goodspeed of IN 5:02PM September 07, 2011

Putting the Native Americans in slavery was actually one for the first options, however, there were many reasons why it was unattainable. First, native americans were constantly dying off from disease that white settlers brought over, second and most importantly enslaving someone on their own land is extremely difficult. They know where to hide, run, the benefits of their land and they also had an army of Indian fighters. Africans on the other hand were taken thousands of miles away from their home and put amongst people (other Africans) who they were unable to communicate with. They had no idea where to escape to if they did (it wasnt until later they learned North was free). indians were a warring people. they knew how to fight and kill. And it wasnt until after the Dawes Act the killing of Sitting Bull that Indians were relegated to nothing more than a nusiance.

S. Richards of NC 2:13PM August 27, 2011

That Cuba idea was good. Would have saved us alot of headache owning that. We could make it a sugar-plantation state and have plenty of ethanol. Concerning the slaves, I cant see why the colonists risked their lives in those rickety boats sailing half-way across the world to seize africans !! Indians were plentiful all over the US! Slavery of anyone is no good, of course.

david of NC 11:39PM June 24, 2011

Sam Richardumb is the worst kind of imbecile, the one who not only doesn't know he's a moron but actually believes he is intelligent.

Fred of CA 6:32PM March 05, 2011

Mr. Lott,
I'm very sorry that I offended your compassionate conservatism but at the end of the day we have a black president and many other flourishing African Americans in the US so I don't see the "visible consequences" on today's descendants of slavery. The problems that many lower income African Americans have today were not created by slavery but socialistic programs of the 20th century. Let's also ignore the fact that these descendants would be still be in an extremely oppressed and poor continent if the slave trade never existed. Though slavery is terrible and many people suffered I would still have to say that if anything these descendants are better off in a free nation than Africa. Also if you go back through history we all at some point were slaves of someone it didn't just happen in that time period and region of the world. Though I have read many "books" on the subject they will never replace good ole logic which you are obviously lacking.
Sam Richardson
Pride is not always a virtue...buddy!

Sam Richardson of TX 4:56PM March 03, 2011

Sam Richardson, maybe you're the stupid one. For those who had to endure the evils of slavery, they didn't think it was a Gone with the Wind good ole time. Call it what you like, but it's factual history not political correctness. And yes you and I both as descendants benefit or not from our ancestors. There are visible consequences to a 200 year old history. Get yourself a book.
Nic Lott
A Proud Conservative Republican!
Shut up the political correctness talk.

Nic Lott of MS 12:37PM February 23, 2011