Benjamin Pierce
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Benjamin Pierce may refer to:
- Benjamin Pierce (governor)Benjamin Pierce (governor)Benjamin Pierce was an American Democratic-Republican politician. He served as Governor of New Hampshire from 1827 to 1828 and from 1829 to 1830.-Biography:...
(1757-1839), governor of New Hampshire in the 1820s, father of U.S. President Franklin Pierce - Benjamin Pierce (1841–1853), the last surviving son of U.S. President Franklin Pierce; died in a train accident just before his father's inauguration
- Benjamin C. PierceBenjamin C. PierceBenjamin Crawford Pierce is an American professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania. Pierce joined Penn in 1998 from Indiana University and held research positions at the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon...
, American professor of computer science
Fiction
- Benjamin Franklin Pierce, known as Hawkeye Pierce, fictional character in the M*A*S*H film and television series
- Benjamin Pierce, fictional schizophrenic artist in the David Cronenberg film ScannersScannersScanners is a 1981 science-fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan...
See also
- Benjamin PeirceBenjamin PeirceBenjamin Peirce was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately 50 years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics....
(1809–1880), Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University - Benjamin Osgood PeirceBenjamin Osgood PeirceBenjamin Osgood Peirce was an American mathematician and a holder of the Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard from 1888 until his death in 1914.-References:...
(1854-1914), Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University