Samuel Pierce was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity.
12 Facts About Samuel Pierce
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Samuel Pierce was elected to Cornell's oldest senior honor society, the Sphinx Head Society.
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Samuel Pierce was a member of the New York Young Republican Club.
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Samuel Pierce served in the United States Army's Criminal Investigation Division during World War II.
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Samuel Pierce graduated from Cornell University in 1947 and received a law degree from Cornell Law School in 1949.
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Samuel Pierce earned a master of laws degree from New York University School of Law in 1952.
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Samuel Pierce was an assistant United States attorney in New York from 1953 to 1955.
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Samuel Pierce became an assistant to the Undersecretary of Labor in 1955.
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Samuel Pierce argued before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Martin Luther King Jr.
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In 1981, Samuel Pierce became Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Ronald Reagan.
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Samuel Pierce was Reagan's only African-American Cabinet member and the only cabinet member to serve in his post throughout both of Reagan's terms as President.
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Samuel Pierce died at the Holy Cross Hospital outside Washington, DC, on October 31,2000, at the age of 78.