Career
Perry was a Whig in 1852, but was the Democratic nominee for City Treasurer in 1858 when George West. Morton ran for mayor. He was President of the Hudson County Gaslight Company and a director of the First National Bank of Hoboken. He was born on January 10, 1812 in Massachusetts to George Perry.
He served as the seventh mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey from 1864 to 1865
By 1867 he was president of the Hudson County Gaslight Company and a director of the First National Bank of Hoboken.
Perry died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head at 11:00 pm on January 9, 1872.