Legacy
Places named after President Pierce:
- Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire.
- Franklin Pierce School District, and namesake high school in Parkland, Washington
- Pierce Elementary School in Birmingham, Michigan.
- Pierce County in Washington, Nebraska, Georgia, and Wisconsin (but not the one in North Dakota, which was actually named after Gilbert Ashville Pierce)
- Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire
- Mt. Pierce in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, New Hampshire
- Franklin Pierce Lake (a reservoir in New Hampshire which covers the site of a log cabin which the Pierce family lived in and where Franklin may have been born)
- Pierceton, Indiana
Pierce was portrayed by Porter Hall in the 1944 film The Great Moment and voiced by Sargent Shriver in the PBS documentary series The American President.
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