[3] Perry was a Whig in 1852, but was the Democratic nominee for City Treasurer in 1858 when George W. Morton ran for mayor.
[2] He was President of the Hudson County Gaslight Company and a director of the First National Bank of Hoboken.
On December 13, 1838, in Sandwich, Massachusetts, he married Caroline Goodson.
He served as the seventh mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1864 to 1865 By 1867 he was president of the Hudson County Gaslight Company and a director of the First National Bank of Hoboken.
[4] Perry died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head at 11:00 pm on January 9, 1872.