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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.
Although Pierce fully expected to be renominated by the Democrats in the 1856 presidential election, he was abandoned by his party and his bid failed. His reputation in the North suffered further during the Civil War as he became a vocal critic of President Abraham Lincoln.