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In the film Hawkeye is married with children, but in the TV series he is a bachelor and something of a ladies' man. He was given the nickname Hawkeye by his father, from the character in the novel The Last of the Mohicans, the only book my old man ever read. His birth name is taken from a member of Hooker's own family named Franklin Pierce.
The young Franklin Pierce enjoyed attention and involvement so much that he placed academics as a second priority, right behind social involvement. He soon ranked lowest in his class and this made him strive harder to improve his grades where he eventually ranked third in class during their graduation in 1824.