Pirce, William A
merchant, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 29, 1824, in Scituate, R. I. In 1855 he was elected a state senator; and in 1858 and again in 1862 was elected a representative in the Rhode Island legislature. In 1862 he was appointed assessor of internal revenue for the second district of Rhode Island, which position he held until the office was abolished in 1873. In 1879 he was again elected a member of the state house of representatives, and was re-elected in 1880 and 1881. In 1882 he was again elected state senator. In 1884 he was elected representative from Rhode a Island to the forty-ninth congress.