Career
In 1869, Pierce commenced practice in Union City, Tennessee in Obion County. He served as mayor in 1872. He was elected the district attorney general of the twelfth judicial circuit in 1874. He was re-elected in 1878 and served until 1883.
Elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress, Pierce served from March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1885. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renominaton in 1884, but was elected to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses, and served from March 4, 1889 to March 3, 1893. Again unsuccessful in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress, he was elected to the Fifty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses. He served from March 4, 1897 to March 3, 1905.
When Pierce was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election to the Fifty-ninth Congress in 1904, he resumed the practice of law in Union City, Tennessee. He was chairman of the state Democratic State campaign committee in 1929.
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