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 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Job Pierson was born about eight years after the end of the Revolutionary War in East Hampton and grew up there. During this time he attended community schools. In 1811 he graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts. He studied law in Salem and Schaghticoke. His admission to the bar he received in 1815 and then began to practice in Rensselaer County. Between 1824 and 1833 he was district attorney. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1830 for the 22nd Congress Pierson was in the ninth election district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John D. Dickinson on March 4, 1831. After a successful re-election in 1834, he suffered a defeat and retired after the March 3, 1835 from the Congress of.

After his time Congress he resumed his activities as a lawyer. Between 1835 and 1840 he was Guardianship and estate Richter ( surrogate ) in Rensselaer County. He took in the years 1848, 1852 and 1856 in part as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions. On April 9, 1860, he died in Troy and was buried there in the Oakwood Cemetery.