Lawyer/Politician/Chancellor, SUNY
Centurion, 1868–1890
Born 13 June 1819 in Charleston, New York
Died 1 January 1890 in Albany, New York
Buried Green-Wood Cemetery
, Brooklyn, New York
Proposed by Francis Vinton and Regis Gignoux
Elected 6 June 1868 at age forty-eight
Century Memorial
Henry R. Pierson was for some time a member of the State Senate. He was a Regent of the University of New York and Chancellor of the University. He fulfilled all these public trusts with honor to himself and to the State, and in all the relations of life was deservedly honored and esteemed.
Henry E. Howland
1890 Century Association Yearbook
