William Pierce (politician)

William Pierce (1740 - 1789) was an army officer during the American Revolutionary War and a politician from Georgia.

Pierce was born in Georgia in 1740. He served in the Continental Army as an aide-de-camp to General Nathanael Greene. Following the war, he was a merchant as well as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives in 1786. Pierce was chosen as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787, and as a delegate from Georgia to the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Pierce was an original member and vice president of the Society of the Cincinnati. He was serving as a trustee of the Chatham County Academy at the time of his death in Savannah, Georgia, on December 10, 1789.