Pearce, James Alfred

Life Span
to
Full name
James Alfred Pearce
Place of Birth
Alexandria, VA
Burial Place
Chestertown, MD
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
Education
Princeton (College of New Jersey)
Occupation
Politician
Attorney or Judge
Farmer or Planter
Political Parties
Democratic
Whig
Government
US Senate
US House of Representatives
State legislature
Thirty-Seventh Congress of the United States
Date Title
New York Herald, "The Late Meeting of Maryland Slaveholders," July 23, 1858
How to Cite This Page: "Pearce, James Alfred," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6369.