Charles Wilson Pierce Explained

State1:Alabama
District1:4th
Term Start1:July 21, 1868
Term End1:March 3, 1869
Predecessor1:District inactive
Successor1:Charles Hays
Office2:Member of the Alabama Senate
Term2:1877
1880
Birth Name:Charles Wilson Pierce
Birth Date:7 October 1823
Birth Place:Benton, New York
Death Place:Hastings, Florida
Party:Republican

Charles Wilson Pierce (October 7, 1823 – February 18, 1907) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.

Biography

Born in Benton, New York, Pierce completed preparatory studies.He moved with his father to Sandusky, Ohio, in 1829, and from there to Huntsville, Ohio, in 1847.He moved to Havana, Illinois, in 1855.During the Civil War enlisted in Company B, Eighty-fifth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was elected first lieutenant.He was appointed quartermaster June 14, 1864.Commissioned major in 1865.He settled in Demopolis, Alabama.Held various public offices.Upon the readmission of Alabama to representation was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress and served from July 21, 1868, to March 3, 1869.He declined to be a candidate for renomination.He moved to Nebraska in 1872.He served as member of the Nebraska State constitutional convention in 1875.

Pierce was elected to the State senate in 1877 and reelected in 1880.He resigned in 1881 to become register of the United States land office, which position he held until May 1886.He returned to his farm.He died in Hastings, Florida, February 18, 1907.He was interred in the family plot on the home farm near Waverly, Nebraska.