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William M. Pierson
Full Name: William M. Pierson
Date of birth: March 12, 1871
Date of death: April 24, 1935
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Terms of Service top
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Chamber |
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Dates of Service |
Legislatures |
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Counties in District |
H
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33
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Jan 13, 1903 - Jan 10, 1905
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28th
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Democrat
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Greenville / Hunt
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Hunt
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H
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15
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Jan 8, 1901 - Jan 13, 1903
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27th
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Democrat
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Greenville / Hunt
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Hunt
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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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Resolutions and Journal entries |
44th Legislature, R.S., 4/25/1935, p. 1877.
Resolutions - Memorial.
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Biographical Sketches |
PIERSON, WILLIAM (1871-1935).
Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch and portrait, William Pierson, Associate Justice, Texas Supreme Court, 1923-1935.
Justices of Texas, 1836-1986 (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2004.
Obituary, William M. Pierson, Cleburne Times-Review, 4/28/1935, p. 4, crediting Johnson County Historical Collective.
Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
Pierson, William.
Texas State Cemetery.
Biographical sketch, William Pierson, pp. 175-176. Born 3/12/1871 in Gilmer, Upshur County.
The Twenty-Seventh Legislature and State Administration of Texas, 1901.
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Other Resources |
Census of 1900 - William M. Pierson, Greenville, Hunt County, age 29, born March 1871 in Texas, lawyer, boarder.
FamilySearch.
Judge William Pierson, birth date 3/12/1871 in Upshur County, death date 4/24/1935 in Austin, Travis County, lawyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.
FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976.
"Murder and Mayhem on the Texas Supreme Court: The Shocking Death of Justice William Pierson and the Evolution of the Insanity Defense in Texas," by Gary M. Lavergne, Volume 4, No. 1, Fall 2014, pp. 20-29.
Journal of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society.
Memorial, October 1935, pp. 32-33.
Texas Law Review Proceedings of the . . . Annual Meeting of the Texas Bar Association.
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Photographs |
Photograph.
William Pierson, Texas Jurists Collection
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