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Franklin Piece / 1853

 # 1: Harrison / #2: Polk / #3: Taylor
# 4: Pierce / #5: Buchanan
/ # 6: Harding / #7: FDR

Poisoned Presidents?
By Mike King
Case 4 of 7
Franklin Pierce

POISONED PRESIDENTS?
Case 4 of 7 / Franklin Pierce
* Standard Introduction for the Series
(skip intro if you've already read it)

Of the eight American presidents who died in office, there are four which we obviously know to have been assassinated by gunfire or post-op doctor "mistakes" -- Abe Lincoln (1865), James Garfield (1881), William McKinley (1901), John F Kennedy (1963). Interestingly, each had opposed or crossed the New World Order crime syndicate in one way or another -- as had President Andrew Jackson, who, in 1835, survived an attempt on his life when the assailant's pistols misfired. Two others also survived close-range gunfire attempts -- Gerald Ford (1974) and Ronald Reagan (1981).

But what about the four presidents who died in office due to "sudden illness" at relatively young ages? They were William H. Harrison (1841, age 68), Zachary Taylor (1850, age 65), Warren Harding (1923, age 57), and even the villainous Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945, age 63). Could any or all of them have been poisoned? To that list, we should add James K. Polk, who suddenly became ill and died only three months after leaving office (1849, age 53) -- Franklin Pierce, who in 1853, suddenly developed a severe lung illness, at 47, but survived -- and James Buchanan, 65, who became extremely ill two months before his inauguration in 1857, and then again on the eve of his inauguration -- but also survived.

When you think about it, slipping someone a bit of poison in food or drink has got to be much easier than recruiting (or framing) a "lone nut" gunman and then concocting an elaborate after-the-fact coverup. Of course, without autopsies, all we can do is hypothesize and suspect. But given the fact that powerful networks conveniently stood to benefit from all of these presidential deaths / near deaths, the cases are not only worth considering, but in this writer's opinion, raise enough doubts to justify exhuming the bodies for forensic analysis.

We will review each case as part of a 7-part series. This is part 4, about Franklin Pierce.

A dangerous job --- (1-4:) Lincoln (pro-Union, interest free currency, refused to borrow from Rothschild); Garfield (pro-hard money / gold, opposed the big bankers); McKinley (pro-hard money / gold, strict constitutionalist); and JFK (anti-CIA, pro-peace, issued interest-free coins, opposed Israeli nuclear weapons development)

1841

1849

1850

1853

1857

1923

1945

Harrison, Polk, Taylor, Pierce (survived), Buchanan (survived), Harding, FDR

Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was a Democrat who was elected the 14th President in 1852. Though a northerner and a pro-Unionist, Pierce also enjoyed strong support in the South, and he viewed radical northern abolitionists as a threat to unity. Pierce's one-term presidency would go on to be deemed a "failure" by establishment historians, and this "correctionist historian" would have to agree with academia in this case; while noting, in all fairness, that few placed in his predicament could have succeeded. Pierce's fear of "The Slave Power" expansionists alienated pro-Union and anti-slavery groups for he, like President Fillmore, appeased the secessionists by signing the Kansas–Nebraska Act (which allowed slavery in new territories) and enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act.

Far from calming the situation, Pierce's approach only exacerbated the related controversies of slavery expansion and the coming secession. It can rightly be said that the Civil War started under Pierce's watch, in the new territory of Kansas where "free state" settlers bloodily battled with "slave staters." (see "Bleeding Kansas") Much like what was going on over in Europe, this period in US history was one in which the government, particularly the dangerous office of the presidency itself, regardless of who was holding it, was the most destabilized it had ever been --- and it was all by design of "somebody."

Before we review the possible, but not fatal, presidential poisoning of Pierce, it is important to note that he came close to dying in an "accident" two months before being sworn in.  Pierce and his wife, Jane, sustained minor injuries after their train-car derailed in Massachusetts and toppled down a 20-foot embankment -- coming to rest on its roof. Killed in the strange accident was their 11-year-old son, Benny. Pierce himself pulled little Benny from the wreckage. The back of the boy's head had been torn off by flying debris. After glimpsing the horrible sight, Jane, according to a witness,  went into "agony beyond any description." She suffered from severe depression the rest of her days. It is also said that Pierce himself was never the same after the accident; and that be became weak and prone to manipulation. Understandable.

Things get even freakier. During this pre-inauguration period, Pierce's vice-President-to-be, a southern pro-unionist named William R. King of Alabama, like Presidents Harrison, Polk and Taylor in recent years, also came down suddenly ill while in Cuba --- "tuberculosis" they said. King was so ill that he couldn't make it back to Washington DC for the March swearing-in. He was administered the oath of Vice Presidency while still in Cuba. Just 6 weeks later, King, 67, was dead and Pierce went without a VP for his whole 4-year presidency. Just imagine the political destabilization had Pierce and King both died during the pre-inauguartion period. Who would have become president then, when Fillmore's term expired? Rules of succession only apply to sitting presidents & vice presidents --- not pre-presidents.

1. Could someone have rigged the deadly pre-inauguration train derailment over a Massachusetts embankment? Agents of intrigue operated in the North as well as the South. // 2. Jane Pierce saw her son's head smashed open and was never the same. // 3. Vice President William R. King -- sudden pre-inauguration "tuberculosis," followed by death -- leaving the already weakened Pierce without a VP for the next four years.

1804-1869

Pierce's compromises, on top of previous ones, were (as southern pro-Union presidents Jackson, Polk & Taylor had all previously foreseen) only strategic stepping stones toward the actual long term conspiratorial goal of what Unionists were calling, "The Slave Power" --- namely, expansion and secession, by Civil War if necessary. 

 May 22, 1856 -- Congressman Preston Brooks (SC) surprise-attacked Senator Charles Sumner (MA) with a cane in the US Senate Chamber  -- beating the defenseless Sumner over the head so severely that he almost died, and never fully recovered. Brooks had taken offense to Sumner's anti-"Slave Power" / anti-Kansas-Nebraska Compromise speech in which he attacked his cousin, SC Senator Andrew Butler. Onlookers who moved to restrain Brooks were held back by another Congressman, Laurence M. Keitt (SC), who was brandishing a pistol.

In Summer 1853, Pierce developed a severe respiratory infection while traveling to the world's fair in New York. He described his sudden affliction as  "a pain in his lungs" -- and was forced to cancel some speeches. Back in Washington, he took to bed. Observers described his state as "broken and wretched." Though called a severe cold at the time, the lung illness was obviously something more -- possibly pneumonia.

Chills and fever again afflicted Pierce in summer 1854. Both the President and the First Lady developed a chronic cough -- with both, according to one source, coughing up blood. (here) Were it not for the sudden and unexpected deaths of THREE recent presidents, the recent death of Pierce's VP, and the horrible train derailment which killed his son -- one could reasonably dismiss the sickness of the Pierces as pneumonia or tuberculosis. But given all of these strange occurrences and the crazy political climate leading up to the Civil War, Pierce's sudden lung ailment, which he survived, should also be considered suspicious -- because poisons can indeed cause what is known as "chemical pneumonia." After leaving office in 1857, both Pierces died young, Jane in 1863, age 57 --- and Franklin in 1869, at age 65.

Broken by personal tragedy and a nation coming apart at the seams, Pierce (said to have taken to the bottle) was powerless to reverse the course of the inevitable.


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