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Henry R. Pease

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(February 19, 1835 — January 2, 1907) Pease was a teacher, lawyer, and politician. Henry Roberts Pease was born in Connecticut tin 1835 and moved to Mississippi after the Civil War. He was a teacher from 1848 to 1859, before studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1859. During the Civil War, Pease served in the Union Army as a private and raised to the rank of captain. After the war, he was appointed to act as superintendent in Louisiana and then in Mississippi. Pease was elected as a Republican during the Forty-Third Congress to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Adelbert Ames. He served in the Senate from February 3, 1874 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/P000172]

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