John Pierpoint

[1] Pierpoint was educated in Rutland, studied at the Litchfield Law School in 1825 and 1826, and was admitted to the bar in 1827.

[1] In 1834, Pierpoint received an honorary degree (Master of Arts) from Middlebury College.

[4] After a period of ill health in 1834 and 1835, Pierpoint moved to Fayette, Mississippi to recuperate; he lived there for two years before returning to Vergennes.

[1] Initially a Democrat opposed to slavery,[2] he was Addison County's Register of Probate from 1836 to 1857.

[1] He was a member of the Vermont State Senate from 1855 to 1857, and served as chairman of the Judiciary Committee in 1856 and 1857.