Job Pierson Explained

Job Pierson
State:	New York
Term Start:	March 4, 1831
Term End:	March 3, 1835
Predecessor:	John Dean Dickinson
Successor:	Hiram P. Hunt
Birth Date:	23 September 1791
Birth Place:	East Hampton, New York, U.S.
Death Place:	Troy, New York, U.S.
Spouse:	Clarissa Bulkeley Pierson
Party:	Jacksonian
Children:	Job Pierson (1824-1896) Sarah J. Pierson John B. Pierson
Alma Mater:	Williams College
Occupation:	Lawyer

Job Pierson (September 23, 1791 – April 9, 1860) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1831 to 1835.

Biography

Born in East Hampton, New York, Pierson attended the common schools. He graduated from Williams College in 1811. He studied law in Salem and Schaghticoke. He was admitted to the bar in 1815 and commenced practice in Rensselaer County. He served as district attorney from 1824 to 1833.

Congress

Pierson was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1835). After an unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the Twenty-fourth Congress in 1834, he resumed the practice of law. He served as Surrogate of Rensselaer County from 1835 to 1840 and was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1848, 1852, and 1856.

Death

Pierson died in Troy, New York and was interred in Oakwood Cemetery.

Notes and references

• Job Pierson Family Papers. 1994. 13 January 2014.
  

External links

• Job Pierson Family Papers at the Library of Congress Manuscripts Division. The Library of Congress holds the Pierson family papers, which consist of approximately 350 letters written by Job Pierson (1791-1860) to his wife Clarissa Bulkeley Pierson between 1831 and 1835. The letters, written during Pierson's two congressional terms, focus almost exclusively on political and social events in Washington. A passionate supporter of Andrew Jackson, Pierson filled his letters with accounts of the president and other major political figures, including Martin Van Buren, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun, and discussed the issues that dominated Jacksonian politics, including the Cherokee nation's legal status, the Second Bank of the United States, the Tariff of 1833, and the Nullification Crisis. The letters also reveal much about Democratic efforts to maintain party discipline in Congress, congressional daily work routines, Washington social gatherings, and the boarding-house life endured by many congressional representatives.