Amador County Biographies

Andrew L. Pierovich

Submitted by Kathy Sedler, September 2004

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   Andrew L. Pierovich, one of the able and successful members of the 
Amador county bar, is the present city attorney of Jackson, and is honoring his 
county by his splendid professional service.  He was born in Jackson, June 22, 
1895, a son of Andrew and Kate (Glavich) Pierovich.  The father was a seafaring 
man, who came around the Horn to California and in the early ‘70s came to 
Jackson, Amador county.  For a number of years he engaged in mining and then 
turned his attention to the hotel business, which he followed successfully until 
his death, in 1919.  His widow is still living in Jackson.  They became the 
parents of two sons and three daughters, but one daughter is now deceased.
   Andrew L. Pierovich attended the public and high schools of his 
native community and then entered St. Mary’s College, at San Francisco, from 
which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1917.  During the 
World war he joined the United States Navy, in which he served for eighteen 
months.  At the close of the war he was honorably discharged and returned home, 
and for a while had charge of his father’s business after the latter’s death.  
He then entered the law school of the University of California and won the 
degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1922.  Admitted to the bar, he practiced his 
profession in San Francisco until 1926, when he returned to Jackson and has 
since been engaged in practice here, though still maintaining his office 
connections in San Francisco.  He is an able, successful and dependable attorney 
and is serving as city attorney of Jackson.
   Politically Mr. Pierovich is a democrat and is interested in 
everything that concerns the prosperity and advancement of his community.  He 
belongs to the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Knights of Columbus (third 
degree), the American Legion and the Native Sons of the Golden West.  He is very 
fond of the mountains, and fishing and hunting are his favorite forms of 
recreation.  He has prospered in his individual affairs and he and a partner own 
the Jackson theater, a modern and well equipped motion picture house, in which 
are presented the latest talking pictures.  He is known as a man of progressive 
ideas and in civic affairs is a leader, giving freely of his time and efforts 
for the welfare of the community in which he lives.  He commands a large law 
practice and is numbered among Amador county’s representative citizens.
 
History of the Sacramento Valley California Biographical, Vol. III by Major J. 
W. Wooldridge, Chicago:  The Pioneer Historical Society Publ. Co., 1931 pp 16-17