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Clinton D. Pierson
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Clinton D. Pierson (died January 13, 1870) was an American politician and businessman. Reared enslaved, he was emancipated during the American Civil War and became a leading political advocate of the interests of freedmen in New Bern, North Carolina. After the war, he became active in the Equal Rights League and joined the Republican Party.
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