Voting Station

Jane Pierce

Please vote to return to collections.

First Lady

The Resume

Why she might be annoying:

    She only read religious works.
    She had horrible handwriting.
    She was very thin, 5'5 100 lbs.
    She almost always wore drab black.
    She was painfully shy.
    She had trouble fitting into the social life.
    She was so depressing that Nathaniel Hawthorne called her 'death's head.'
    She suffered depression.
    She was irritable.
    She heavily depended on others.
    After her son, Benjamin died, she wrote letters to him.
    She relied on her widowed aunt Abigail Kent Means, to help with her First Lady duties.
    Because she never appeared in public she was known as 'The Shadow in the White House.'

Why she might not be annoying:

    She found slavery an abomination.
    She was so anti slavery that before the civil war she said: 'if by war, then let it be so.'
    She disagreed with her husband President Franklin Pierce, who felt the preservation of the United States was more important than ending slavery.
    She played piano.
    Her first son died after 3 days, her second son died at age four and her third at age twelve.
    She witnessed, her son Benjamin at age 12 being beheaded in a train wreck (January 6, 1853).
    She did not attend her husband's inauguration because she was still mourning the loss of her son Benjamin (March 1853).
    She disliked politics.
    She was the first First Lady to enjoy hot and cold water and a tiled bathroom.

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 12 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 20 Votes: 45.00% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 16 Votes: 68.75% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 17 Votes: 47.06% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 22 Votes: 31.82% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 60 Votes: 36.67% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 97 Votes: 43.30% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 92 Votes: 53.26% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 33 Votes: 39.39% Annoying