William M. Pierson

Full Name: William M. Pierson
Date of birth: March 12, 1871
Date of death: April 24, 1935

Terms of Service
Biographical Notes
Committee Information

Terms of Service top

Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
H	33	Jan 13, 1903 - Jan 10, 1905	28th	Democrat	Greenville / Hunt		Hunt
H	15	Jan 8, 1901 - Jan 13, 1903	27th	Democrat	Greenville / Hunt		Hunt

Biographical Notes and Resources top

Resolutions and Journal entries

44th Legislature, R.S., 4/25/1935, p. 1877. Resolutions - Memorial.

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.

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.

Photographs

Photograph. William Pierson, Texas Jurists Collection

Committee Information top

28th R.S. - 1903 Constitutional Amendments Education Judicial Districts (Chair) Judiciary No. 2 Railroad Commission
27th R.S. - 1901 Judicial Districts Judiciary No. 1 Railroad Commission Senatorial Districts Towns and City Corporations

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