Albert J. Pearson

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Albert J. Pearson

|image=Albert Jackson Pearson.jpg

|state=Ohio

|constituency=17th district (1891–1893)
16th district (1893–1895)

|term_start=March 4, 1891

|term_end=March 3, 1895

|preceded=Joseph D. Taylor

|succeeded=Lorenzo Danford

|state_senate3=Ohio

|district3=18th

|term_start3=January 2, 1882

|term_end3=January 6, 1884

|birthname = Albert Jackson Pearson

|preceded3=Beriah Wilkins

|succeeded3=William S. Crowell

|party=Democratic

|birth_place=Centerville, Ohio

|death_place=Woodsfield, Ohio

|restingplace=Woodsfield Cemetery

|birth_date={{birth date|1846|5|20}}

|death_date={{death date and age|1905|5|15|1846|5|20}}

|alma_mater=National Normal University

|allegiance=United States

|branch=Union Army

|unit=186th Ohio Infantry

|rank=private

}}

Albert Jackson Pearson (May 20, 1846 – May 15, 1905) was an American politician and jurist who was a two-term U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1891 to 1895. He was a veteran of the Civil War.

Biography

Born in Centerville, Ohio, Pearson moved with his parents to Beallsville, Ohio at an early age. He attended the common schools and the normal school at Lebanon, Ohio.

= Civil War =

Pearson served as a private in Company I, One Hundred and Eighty-Sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War.

= Legal career =

He was admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced practice in Woodsfield, Ohio. He served as the prosecuting attorney of Monroe County, Ohio, from 1871 to 1877. He served as member of the Ohio Senate in 1881 and 1882. He was a probate judge of Monroe County from 1884 to 1890.

=Congress=

Pearson was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1895). He was not a candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress, and instead resumed the practice of his profession.