
Henry Roberts Pease (19 February 1835-2 January 1907) was a Republican US Senator from Mississippi from 3 February 1874 to 4 March 1875, succeeding Adelbert Ames and preceding Blanche K. Bruce.
Biography[]
Henry Roberts Pease was born in Winsted, Connecticut in 1835, and he workced as a teacher from 1848 to 1859 before becoming a lawyer in Washington DC in 1859. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War before becoming superintendent of education of freedmen in Mississippi in 1867 during Reconstruction. He became State Superintendent of Education in 1869, and he served in the US Senate from 1874 to 1875, filling the vacancy caused by Adelbert Ames' resignation. He went on to serve as Postmaster of Vicksburg in 1875, and he moved to Watertown, South Dakota in 1881 and served as receiver of the land office from 1881 to 1885. He served in the State Senate from 1895 to 1896, and he died in 1907.