Herbert Chandler Pierce (October 6, 1869 – May 7, 1940) was a farmer, real estate agent and political figure in

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. He represented Wadena in the

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from 1908 to 1916 as a

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. He was born in Tolon Creek,

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, the son of William Smith Pierce, and was educated in

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and

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. In 1890, he married Martha Fernival Huffman. Pierce lost both of his legs in an accident in Manitoba in 1892, and he was then involved in exhibits on artificial limbs and would demonstrate skating using prosthetic legs. Pierce lived at

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in Dahlton district. In 1916, Pierce was convicted of bribery for accepting money to oppose the "Banish-the-Bar" bill in the legislature in 1913. Around 1925, he authored a monetary reform booklet, ''Our Money System and What It is Doing to Us...'', in which he indicated he was working on a larger work, a book that apparently he never completed. His booklet is reproduced in full in ''Peel's Prairie Provinces'' website. Pierce died in 1940 in

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, Saskatchewan.

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Saskatchewan Liberal Party MLAs 1869 births 1940 deaths People from Dane County, Wisconsin American emigrants to Canada {{Saskatchewan-politician-stub