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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.
Actually, Franklin Pierce was the most hated president in history by the citizens that lived during his administration. His own party didn't even nominate him for a second term. Lincoln was second, but the difference is, on the night he was assassinated, Lincoln became the second-most beloved president in history.