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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.
Early Beginnings. It was the 23rd of November, 1804 when a former farmer who is now a state governor, Benjamin Pierce, and his wife, Anna Kendrick gave birth to their fifth child who was christened Franklin Pierce and would later become the only president from New Hampshire.