Jeremiah H. Pierson

Jeremiah Halsey Pierson (* September 13, 1766 in Newark, New York, † December 12, 1855 in Ramapo, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1821 and 1823 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jeremiah Halsey Pierson grew up during the British colonial period. His family moved in 1772 to Richmond (Massachusetts ). He attended public schools in Richmond and Stockbridge. He then completed his preliminary studies. He studied law and began after receiving his license to practice law in Massachusetts to practice. In 1795 he moved to New York and settled in Ramapo. There he continued to work as a lawyer, but also went commercial transactions after and worked in production. He was 1800-1811 Justice of the Peace in 1808 and Associate Justice (associate justice) the Court of Common Pleas. He played a major responsibility for the safety of the construction of the Erie Railroad. Politically, he was a member of the founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1820 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Caleb Tompkins on March 4, 1821. Since he gave up for reelection in 1822, he retired after the March 3, 1823 out of the Congress. Then he went back to his previous transactions. In 1831 he took part in Baltimore as a delegate to the National Republican Convention. He died on 12 December 1855 in Ramapo, and his body was then buried in the local cemetery.