JAMES ALFRED PEARCE/MARYLAND/MOC/SENATOR Start Price USD 9.99 Current Price USD 9.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, November 16, 2008 End Time Sunday, November 23, 2008 Location Maine See more about 'JAMES ALFRED PEARCE/MARYLAND/MOC/SENATOR ' Description James Alfred Pearce (1805 - 1862). Senate Years of Service: 1843-1855; 1855-1857; 1857-1862. Party: Whig; Opposition; Democrat. OFFERED HERE: Signature on approx. 1.125 x 4.125 in. paper piece laid to approx. 1.25 x 4.25 in. stiff card. Very good condition.$3.12 First Class/Insured within US. Outside US to be determined. See our other auctions. We accept credit cards directly but NOT PayPal. We will invoice winning bidder soon after auction closes. Please respond within 3 days to that email. Thanks. Multiple purchases can be shipped together even when auctions end on different days.Representative & Senator from Maryland;Born in Alexandria, Va., December 14, 1805; attended a private academy in Alexandria; graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1822; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Md., in 1824; Moved to Louisiana in 1825 and engaged in sugar planting;Returned to Maryland and settled in Kent County in 1828; resumed the practice of law in Chestertown;Member, State house of delegates 1831-1835;Elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1839); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress;Elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843);Elected as a Whig to the United States Senate in 1843; reelected in 1849, 1855, and 1861, the last time as a Democrat, and served from March 4, 1843, until his death; chairman, Committee on the Library (Twenty-ninth through Thirty-seventh Congresses); chairman, Committee on Finance (Thirty-sixth Congress); died in Chestertown, Md., on December 20, 1862; interment in New Chester Cemetery. Portrait not included with item. Place a Bid!