Grier is appointed President Judge of the District Court of Allegheny County in the Pittsburgh area thanks to his Jacksonian views.
Source Citation
Stuart A. Streichler, “Grier, Robert Cooper,” American National Biography Online, 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/11/11-00357-print.html.
Dickinson College “Robert Cooper Grier (1794-1870),” Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections, Encyclopedia Dickinsonia 2008, http://chronicles.dickison.edu/encylco/g/ed_gierRC.htm