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    Jane Means Pierce (née Appleton; March 12, 1806 – December 2, 1863) was the wife of Franklin Pierce and the first lady of the United States from 1853...
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    President Lincoln. Pierce was popular and outgoing, but his family life was difficult; his three children died young and his wife, Jane Pierce, suffered from...
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    Franklin Pierce. In 1852, Franklin Pierce was elected as president to succeed Millard Fillmore. The election victory put an emotional strain on Jane Pierce, who...
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    governor for supplies. About 1619, Rolfe married Jane Pierce, daughter of English colonist Captain William Pierce, who had survived the shipwreck of the Sea...
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    2010. "Biography of Jane Pierce". whitehouse.gov. Retrieved March 11, 2010 – via National Archives. "First Lady Biography: Jane Pierce". National First Ladies'...
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  • Franklin Pierce March 4, 1853 — March 4, 1857 Franklin and Jane Pierce Pierce's son Benjamin was killed in a train wreck two months before Pierce's inauguration...
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  • Rolfe. After returning to Virginia, John Rolfe married a third time, to Jane Pierce, and gave Thomas a younger half-sister, Elizabeth. John Rolfe wrote his...
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    the case was settled, she married William Farrar. Jane visited Virginia with her mother, Joan Pierce, on the Blessing in 1609. Both she and her mother...
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    Lorelei (2016). "Chapter Eleven: Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, and Jane Pierce: Three Antebellum Presidents' Ladies". In Sibley, Katherine A. S. (ed...
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    Barbara Bush (redirect from Barbara Pierce)
    Barbara Bush (née Pierce; June 8, 1925 – April 17, 2018) was the first lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993, as the wife of George H. W. Bush, the...
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