{{short description|American politician}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Isaac Pierson | image = | state = New Jersey | district = at-large | term_start = March 4, 1827 | term_end = March 3, 1831 | preceded = George Cassedy | succeeded = Silas Condit | office1 = Sheriff of Essex County, New Jersey | term_start1 = 1807 | term_end1 = 1809 | birth_date = {{birth date|1770|8|15|mf=y}} | birth_place = Orange, Province of New Jersey, British America | death_date = {{death date and age|1833|9|22|1770|8|15}} | death_place = Orange, New Jersey, U.S. | party = Adams, Anti-Jacksonian | parents = Matthias Pierson<br>Plebe Nutman | spouse = Nancy Crane | children = 10 | relations = | alma_mater = Princeton College<br>Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons | profession = | resting_place = Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, New Jersey }} '''Isaac Pierson''' (August 15, 1770 – September 22, 1833) represented {{ushr|New Jersey|AL}} in the United States House of Representatives from 1827 to 1831.<ref name="IPbioguide">{{cite web|title=PIERSON, Isaac - Biographical Information|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000341|website=bioguide.congress.gov|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
==Early life== Pierson was born on August 15, 1770, in Orange in the Province of New Jersey. He was the third child of Dr. Matthias Pierson and Phebe (née Nutman) Pierson.{{r|Whittemore1896}} He descends from an early colonial immigrant, Thomas Pierson Sr. (brother of Rev. Abraham Pierson) who was one of the founders of Newark, New Jersey.{{r|Whittemore1896}}
He attended private schools, and graduated from Princeton College in 1789. He studied medicine, graduated from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, and commenced practice in Orange.{{r|IPbioguide}}
==Career== He was elected assessor of Orange on April 13, 1807, and served one year, and served as sheriff of Essex County from 1807 to 1809. He was president of the Medical Society of New Jersey in 1827.<ref name="IPbioguide"/>
Pierson was elected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress and reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress, 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.<ref name="IPbioguide"/>
==Personal life== Pierson was married to Nancy Crane (1775–1841), the daughter of Aaron Crane.<ref name="Whittemore1896"/> Together, they were the parents of ten children, including:<ref name="Whittemore1896">{{cite book|last1=Whittemore|first1=Henry|title=The Founders and Builders of the Oranges: Comprising a History of the Outlying District of Newark, Subsequently Known as Orange, and of the Later Internal Divisions, Viz.: South Orange, West Orange, and East Orange, 1666-1896|date=1896|publisher=L. J. Hardham, printer|page=[https://archive.org/details/foundersbuilders00whit/page/n155 102]|url=https://archive.org/details/foundersbuilders00whit|accessdate=May 6, 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* William Pierson (1796–1882), a doctor who married Margaret Riker Hillyer (1797–1853).<ref name="Whittemore1896"/><ref name="Ricord1898">{{cite book|last1=Ricord|first1=Frederick William|last2=Ricord|first2=Sophia B.|title=Biographical and Genealogical History of the City of Newark and Essex County, New Jersey ...|date=1898|publisher=Lewis Publishing Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A6syAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA156|accessdate=May 6, 2018|language=en}}</ref> * Albert Pierson (1798–1864), a reverend who married Jane Armstrong.<ref name="Whittemore1896"/> * Phebe Stockton Pierson (1801–1877), who married Stephen Condit (1791–1855).<ref name="Condit1885">{{cite book|last1=Condit|first1=Jotham Halsey|title=Genealogical Record of the Condit Family: Descendants of John Cunditt, a Native of Great Britain, who Settled in Newark, N.J., 1678 to 1885|date=1885|publisher=Ward & Tichenor|page=[https://archive.org/details/genealogicalrec00condgoog/page/n384 378]|url=https://archive.org/details/genealogicalrec00condgoog|accessdate=May 6, 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Kestenbaum">{{cite web|last1=Kestenbaum|first1=Lawrence|title=The Political Graveyard: Condit-Treat-Birdsey family of Connecticut and New Jersey|url=https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-171.html|website=politicalgraveyard.com|accessdate=May 6, 2018|archive-date=August 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813004721/http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-171.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> * George Pierson (1805–1880), a reverend who married Eliza Day and, after her death, Caroline Stall.<ref name="Whittemore1896"/><ref name="Ricord1898"/> * Edward Pierson (1808–1866), who married Phebe Rebecca Baldwin (1809–1889).<ref name="Pierson1922">{{cite book|last1=Pierson|first1=David Lawrence|title=History of the Oranges to 1921: Reviewing the Rise, Development and Progress of an Influential Community|date=1922|publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company|page=705|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugsWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA705|accessdate=May 6, 2018|language=en}}</ref> * Aaron Howell Pierson (1811–1863), who married Mary Caroline Ogden (1813–1873).<ref name="Yale1921">{{cite book|last1=Yale University|title=Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College: Deceased During the Academic Year ...|date=1921|publisher=Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company|page=1375|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A55GAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1375|accessdate=May 6, 2018|language=en|author1-link=Yale University}}</ref>
He died in Orange on September 22, 1833. He was buried at the Old Burying Ground, but was reinterred in Rosedale Cemetery in Orange in 1840.<ref name="IPbioguide"/>
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== {{CongBio|P000341}} *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pierson.html#R9M0J9J0X Isaac Pierson] at The Political Graveyard *{{Find a Grave|6940406}}
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