#35: Franklin Pierce
Like most presidents, every new candidate hopes to leave the country better than they found it, but that doesn’t always happen. The 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce, made it his mission to try and ease the tensions that inevitably led to the Civil War, but he didn’t have much luck…
Probably the saddest presidential story of all time, Pierce had a drinking problem due to the events that happened in his life. Having lost his sons and his wife after she mentally checked out, he let the drinking take over. It even got so bad that he was arrested as president for running over a woman with his horse while drunk…