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FRANKLIN, an American statesman, 14th President of the United States; born in Hillsboro, N. H., Nov. 23, 23, 1804. He was educated in the PIERPONT PIETIST schools of his native State and at Bow- 1840; became a member of the Ohio bar. doin College, where he studied in com- He was elected a judge of the Superior pany with Longfellow, Hawthorne, and Court of New York in 1857; was ap- 1829 was elected to the New Hampshire admitted to the bar in 1827, and in to try the prisoners of war confined in 1829 was elected to the New Hampshire various prisons and forts of the country Legislature. In 1833 he entered Con- in 1862. He was one of the counsel for gress, serving four years, and in 1837 John H. Surrat, indicted for complicity in the murder of President Lincoln; in being the youngest member of that body, 1875 became attorney-general of the which contained such men as Webster, United States in Grant's administra- Silas Wright. In 1842 he resigned from tion; and in the following year was ap- 1842 he resigned from pointed United States minister to Great the Senate and retired to private life. Britain. He tried many famous cases during his professional career, and was noted as an orator. He died in New York City, March 6, 1892.
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