Ryan Pierce is a fictional character from Season 5 of the television drama The West Wing. Portrayed by Jesse Bradford, Ryan appears in nine episodes as Josh Lyman's wisecracking intern.
The fortunate son from a powerful Washington family, Ryan is the nephew of an influential senator, and the great-great grandson of President Franklin Pierce (though in reality Franklin Pierce had no children who survived to adulthood). Tension builds between him a...
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Ryan Pierce is a fictional character from Season 5 of the television drama The West Wing. Portrayed by Jesse Bradford, Ryan appears in nine episodes as Josh Lyman's wisecracking intern.
The fortunate son from a powerful Washington family, Ryan is the nephew of an influential senator, and the great-great grandson of President Franklin Pierce (though in reality Franklin Pierce had no children who survived to adulthood). Tension builds between him and the increasingly agitated Josh when the latter discovers that Ryan attended Harvard, his alma mater. Josh immediately fingers Ryan as one of the popular rich kids who used to pick on him.
Nonetheless, Ryan does what he can to help out his overstressed boss. In the episode Han, Josh asks Ryan to sit in on a meeting with a Democratic congressman who has threatened to vote against Bob Russell, President Bartlet's choice to replace the disgraced former Vice President John Hoynes. The meeting ends with Josh loudly berating the congressman for...
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