Question: What Attorney General, born in 1880 in Massachusetts, served under the President who signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and who is generally regarded by historians to be among the worst of US Presidents?

Context articles: North Carolina Attorney General
Attorney General of Myanmar
1856 State of the Union Address
Cara Rodriguez
United States Associate Attorney General
Franklin Pierce
New England Emigrant Aid Company
Attorney General of Bhutan
33rd United States Congress
Caleb Cushing

The Attorney General of North Carolina is the elected head of the state's Department of Justice.
 The North Carolina constitution, in Article III Section 7, provides for the election of the Attorney General.
 http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Legislation/constitution/article3.html By statute, Attorney General's duties include providing legal representation and advice to all state agencies.
 The parameters of that duty have been the subject of some debate, when, for example, United States Attorney General Eric Holder suggested that state Attorneys General should not squander their state's resources in defense of laws they know to be unconstitutional.
 By statute, in defense of the public interest, the Attorney General may initiate legal action or intervene in proceedings before any courts, regulatory officers, agencies or bodies — either state or federal — on behalf of the state's agencies and citizens.
 http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/PDF/ByChapter/Chapter_114.pdf The Attorney General also renders legal opinions, either formally or informally, upon all questions of law submitted by the General Assembly, the Governor or any other state officer.
 Attorney General opinions may be viewed online.
 http://www.ncdoj.gov/About-DOJ/Legal-Services/Legal-Opinions.aspx
The Attorney General of Myanmar (Burmese: ပြည်ထောင်စုရှေ့နေချုပ် ) is the Government of Myanmar's chief legal advisor, and also appears on behalf of the Burmese government in civil and criminal cases.
 The Office of the Attorney General was established in 1948 under the 1947 Constitution of Myanmar and 1948 Attorney General of the Union Act.
 From 1974 through 1988, the post was called the Chairman of the Council of People's Attorney.
 The present law, the 2010 Attorney General of the Union Law was promulgated on 28 October 2010.
 The Attorney General is appointed by the President of Myanmar.
 The Attorney General leads the Office of the Attorney General in Naypyidaw.
The 1856 State of the Union Address was given by Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States.
 It was presented to the 34th United States Congress by the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
 He said, "it is necessary only to say that the internal prosperity of the country, its continuous and steady advancement in wealth and population and in private as well as public well-being, attest the wisdom of our institutions and the predominant spirit of intelligence and patriotism which, notwithstanding occasional irregularities of opinion or action resulting from popular freedom, has distinguished and characterized the people of America."
 He also stated, "In the long series of acts of indirect aggression, the first was the strenuous agitation by citizens of the Northern States, in Congress and out of it, of the question of Negro emancipation in the Southern States."
 President Pierce supported the Kansas-Nebraska act.
 This neutralized the issue of slavery in the central states, and did not say whether to allow it or not.
Cara Rodriguez (born June 24, 1976) is an American attorney and politician who was the acting Attorney General of Oklahoma for a period of several days in February 2017.
 She took office after former attorney general Scott Pruitt resigned to take office as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
 Prior to her tenure as acting attorney general, Rodriguez served as General Counsel to Attorney General Pruitt, assistant solicitor general, and first assistant attorney general.
 She attended Tulane University for her bachelor's degree and University of Oklahoma Law School for her Juris Doctor.
The Associate Attorney General of the United States is the third-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice.
 The Associate Attorney General advises and assists the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General in policies relating to civil justice, federal and local law enforcement, and public safety matters.
 The Associate Attorney General is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
 The incumbent Associate Attorney General is Rachel Brand.
Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States (1853–57).
 Pierce was a northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation.
 His polarizing actions in championing and signing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act alienated anti-slavery groups while failing to stem conflict between North and South setting the stage for Southern secession and the US Civil War.
 Historians and other scholars generally rank Pierce among the worst of US Presidents.
The New England Emigrant Aid Company (originally the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company) was a transportation company in Boston, Massachusetts, created to transport immigrants to the Kansas Territory to shift the balance of power so that Kansas would enter the United States as a free state, rather than a slave state.
 Created by Eli Thayer in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed the population of Kansas Territory to choose whether slavery would be legal, the Company is noted less for its direct impact than for the psychological impact it had on proslavery and antislavery elements.
 Thayer's prediction that the Company would eventually be able to send 20,000 immigrants a year never came to fruition, but it spurred Border Ruffians from nearby Missouri, where slavery was legal, to move to Kansas to ensure its admission to the Union as a slave state.
 That, in turn, further galvanized Free-Staters and enemies of Slave Power.
The Office of the Attorney General of Bhutan (Dzongkha: རྩོད་དཔོན་ཡོངས་ཁྱབ་ཡིག་ཚང་; Wylie: "rtsong-dpon yongs-khyab yig-tshang") is the legal arm of the executive branch of the government.
 It is also the legal adviser of the government and its representative in the judicial system of Bhutan.
 Under the Constitution of 2008, the Attorney General is appointed by the King of Bhutan on the advice of the Prime Minister.
 The Office of the Attorney General is codified by the Attorney General Act of 2006, an act of parliament incorporated by the Constitution.
 Under the Act, the Attorney General also authors and reviews legislation for parliament.
The Thirty-third United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
 It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1853, to March 4, 1855, during the first two years of the administration of U.S. President Franklin Pierce.
 During this session, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, an act that soon led to the creation of the Republican Party.
 The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Seventh Census of the United States in 1850.
 Both chambers had a Democratic majority.
Caleb Cushing (January 17, 1800 – January 2, 1879) was an American diplomat who served as a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts and Attorney General under President Franklin Pierce.