Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Dedication of a Statue of General Franklin Pierce, Fourteenth President of the United States, at the State House, Concord, November 25, 1914
For many years past the great majority of the people of New Hampshire, who take pride in the honor of their state, and the character and achievements of its able and distinguished sons, have felt that some fitting expression of regard for the name and fame of franklin pierce, fourteenth President of the United States, and the only native of New Hampshire to occupy the exalted position of Chief Magistrate of the Republic, should be made, in enduring form, for the benefit of generations to come, in impressing upon their minds the fact that last ing public recognition of true merit and noble service is among the paramount duties of a free people.
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