Isaac Pierson
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Isaac Pierson represented in the United States House of Representatives
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 from 1827 to 1831.

Pierson was born on August 15, 1770 in Orange, New Jersey
Orange, New Jersey
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. He attended private schools, and graduated from Princeton College
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 in 1789. He studied medicine, graduated from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
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 in New York City
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, and commenced practice in Orange. He was elected assessor of Orange on April 13, 1807, and served one year, and served as sheriff of Essex County
Essex County, New Jersey
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 from 1807 to 1809. He was president of the Medical Society of New Jersey in 1827.

Pierson was elected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress
20th United States Congress
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 and reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian
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 to the Twenty-first Congress
21st United States Congress
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, serving in office from March 4, 1827 to March 3, 1831, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress
22nd United States Congress
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.

He died in Orange on September 22, 1833. Interment in Old Burying Ground; reinterment in Rosedale Cemetery
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 in Orange in 1840.

External links

  • Isaac Pierson at The Political Graveyard
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