William A. Pirce

William Almy Pirce (born February 29, 1824 in Hope , Providence County , Rhode Island , † March 5, 1891 in Johnston , Rhode Island) was an American politician . Between 1885 and 1887 he represented the second constituency of the state of Rhode Island in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Pirce attended the public schools in his home country and Smithville Seminary , which later became the Lapham Institute . After that he worked as a teacher. Between 1854 and 1863 he worked in his father's cotton mill. In 1863, during the Civil War , he was paymaster for the Rhode Island Militia.

Politically, Pirce was a member of the Republican Party . In 1855 he was elected to the Rhode Island Senate; in 1858 and 1862 he was a member of the State House of Representatives . Between 1862 and 1873 he was employed by the Tax Department in the Second Financial District of Rhode Island. From 1879 to 1881 Pirce was again a member of the House of Representatives, in 1882 he was again in the State Senate. In 1880 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where James A. Garfield was nominated as the party's presidential candidate. In 1880 and 1884 he sat on the executive committee of the federal party.

In the 1884 congressional elections, Pirce was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second district of Rhode Island . There he replaced Nathan Dixon III on March 4, 1885 . However, the result of the election was controversial as there were irregularities. On January 25, 1887, a few weeks before the regular end of the legislative period on March 3, the election was declared invalid and Pirce had to give up his mandate. After his tenure in Congress , Pirce served as a justice of the peace and worked in the financial administration in Johnston.

Web links

• William A. Pirce in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William A. Pirce in the database of Find a Grave (English)