Job Pierson

Job Pierson (born September 23, 1791 in East Hampton , New York , † April 9, 1860 in Troy , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1831 and 1835 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Job Pierson was born and raised in East Hampton about eight years after the end of the Revolutionary War . During this time he attended community schools. In 1811 he graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts . He studied law in Salem and Schaghticoke . He was admitted to the bar in 1815 and then began practicing in Rensselaer County . Between 1824 and 1833 he was a district attorney. Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction.

In the 1830 congressional elections for the 22nd Congress , Pierson was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the ninth constituency of New York , where he succeeded John D. Dickinson on March 4, 1831 . After a successful re-election he suffered in 1834 a defeat and withdrew from the after March 3, 1835 Congress of.

After his time at Congress, he resumed his practice as a lawyer. Between 1835 and 1840 he was guardianship and probate judge ( surrogate ) in Rensselaer County. He participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1848, 1852 and 1856 . He died on April 9, 1860 in Troy and was buried there in Oakwood Cemetery .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 72, 88, 331 and 880.

Web links

• Job Pierson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Job Pierson in the database of Find a Grave (English)