1. Pierpont Edwards was a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
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Pierpont Edwards entered private practice in New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British America starting in 1771.
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Pierpont Edwards served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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Pierpont Edwards was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1777, from 1784 to 1785, and from 1787 to 1790, serving as Speaker during his last two years.
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Pierpont Edwards was a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation from 1787 to 1788.
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Pierpont Edwards was a member of the Connecticut convention to ratify the United States Constitution in 1788.
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Pierpont Edwards resumed private practice in New Haven from 1790 to 1806.
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Pierpont Edwards was nominated by President Thomas Jefferson on February 21,1806, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut vacated by Judge Richard Law.
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Pierpont Edwards was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 24,1806, and received his commission the same day.
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Pierpont Edwards's service terminated on April 5,1826, due to his death in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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Pierpont Edwards was interred at Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven.
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Pierpont Edwards was a member of the constitutional convention which framed Connecticut's constitution of 1818.