Ozora Pierson Stearns (15 January 1831-2 June 1896) was a Republican US Senator from Minnesota from 23 January to 4 March 1871, interrupting William Windom's terms.
Biography[]
Ozora Pierson Stearns was born in De Kalb, St. Lawrence County, New York on 15 January 1831, and the family moved to Madison, Ohio in 1833. He became a lawyer in Rochester, Minnesota in 1860, served as prosecuting attorney of Olmsted County from 1861 to 1862 and from 1865 to 1866, served as a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War (fighting at the 1864 Battle of the Crater), served as Mayor of Rochester from 1866 to 1868, served in the US Senate in 1871, served as a federal judge from 1874 to 1895, served as a regent of the University of Minnesota from 1890 to 1895, and died in San Diego, California in 1896.