First Hot Hottie!

Seeing as this list is to have no particular order, I'm going to go ahead and start with the...

Hottest Antebellum Hottie!

Our hottest hottie of the Antebellum period is none other than the 14th President of the United States
Franklin Pierce!

Ok, ok. So it's hard to initially see past his hair to find the hotness. But he's got a great jaw, nice eyes and amazing cheekbones. Seriously, Paulina Porizkova has got nothing on him cheekbone-wise. And even though his hair isn't always great, at its worst it is very Snape-esque in that it's all dark and stringy and sorta oily looking. But as we all know, Professor Snape is still very, very HOT.

Franklin Pierce



Alan Rickman as Severus Snape

See, sometime you just have to re-contextualize bad hair to see the overall hotness.
Also, we have to remember than NO ONE looks good in 19th century photographs, so one has to assume a couple of degrees hotter than the photograph actually shows. Just to be fair.

Of course, another of the defining characteristics of this hottie list is the fact that it is about physical hotness. Umm... because he wasn't much of a President. He was a doughface (which is one of those great 19th century words -- it means a Northerner who sided with the South before and through the Civil War) who did a lot to really get the Civil War going, such as supporting the Kansas-Nebraska Act which left open the possibility of slaves in the west. So overall, yeah, booo. Not much of a President. Oh, and also, he was a raging alcoholic. Yeah, addicts who don't actually do the whole recovery process before becoming President of the United States generally are lousy, awful, lame Presidents. Just, you know, in general.

The other interesting things about his presidency are just random trivia. Pierce was good friends with Nathaniel Hawthorne in college. They were in the same class is Henry Wordsworth Longfellow. Pierce was the first president to have a Christmas tree in the White House. He also had the awesomest presidential campaign slogan ever: "We Polked you in 1844; we shall Pierce you in 1852". Seriously. You have to love any campaign slogan with a semi-colon in it. Oh, and also, he was preceded by Millard Fillmore who wasn't at all hot, but there is a clothing company named Fillmore that makes really hot coats and jeans. Not really relevant, I know, but I'm super excited about the trench I just bought.

So yeah, nothin' much to like about Franklin Pierce, but he was hot!