Peirce H. Brereton

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Peirce Hill Brereton (born March 2, 1894 in New Bedford , Massachusetts , † March 19, 1963 in Tampa , Florida ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ). From 1933 to 1934 he was the first mayor of Warwick , Rhode Island .

Life

Brereton studied at Brown University , Yale University , where he graduated in 1915, and at Harvard Law School , where he received a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1918 . During World War I , he served with the rank of Ensign on the USS Itasca II (SP-803), a patrol boat in the United States Navy . In 1919 he was accepted into the bar.

In Rhode Island, Brereton was a judge in the Warwick Probate Court from 1924 to 1926 . From 1926 to 1932 he was a district attorney ( Town Solicitor ) of Warwick. When there was a change in the administrative form of Warwick in 1931 and this changed from a town to a city , a mayor and a city council were elected for the first time in November 1932. Brereton successfully ran for the office of mayor. His inauguration took place in March 1933. He held the office until the end of 1934. The new mayor in 1935 was the Democrat John A. O'Brien .

During the Second World War he served again in the United States Navy, this time with the rank of Lieutenant Commander , and was used in the Pacific War , among other things . In 1946 he moved from Providence to Florida to operate a wood oil tree plantation in Ocala .

Brereton was married with one son, Peirce H. Brereton, Jr.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Brown alumni monthly , Vol. 63, No. 8, page 54 (Providence, Brown University, May 1963)
  2. ↑ a b c The American Bar , p. 950 (JC Fifield Company, 1934)
  3. ^ Journal bulletin Rhode Island Almanac , p. 108, Providence Journal Bulletin, 1996
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Donald A. D'Amato: Warwick: A City at the Crossroads , page 124 (Arcadia Publishing, 2001)
personal data
SURNAME Brereton, Peirce H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brereton, Peirce Hill (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH New Bedford , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1963
Place of death Tampa , Florida