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Robert Laughlin Pierson (1926–1997) was an Episcopal clergyman and Freedom Rider.
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Life
He was born in Chicago in 1926. He graduated from Lawrence University, the University of Wisconsin, and Nashotah House.
He served at St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church. In 1961, he was arrested at Jackson, Mississippi, with the Freedom Riders.
He died on April 13, 1997, in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Family
He married Ann Clark Rockefeller in 1955; they divorced in 1966.
References
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