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Elisha M. Pease
5th & 13th Governor of Texas
In office
August 8, 1867 – September 30, 1869
Appointed byPhilip Sheridan
LieutenantVacant
Preceded byJames W. Throckmorton
Succeeded byEdmund J. Davis
In office
December 21, 1853 – December 21, 1857
Lieutenant
Preceded byJames W. Henderson
Succeeded byHardin Richard Runnels
Member of the Texas Senate
from the 11th district
In office
November 9, 1849 – November 3, 1851
Preceded byJohn B. Jones
Succeeded byAdolphus Sterne
Member of the Texas House of Representatives
from the Brazoria district
In office
February 16, 1846 – November 5, 1849
Preceded byDistrict established
Succeeded byDistrict abolished
Personal details
Born(1812-01-03)January 3, 1812
Enfield, Connecticut, U.S.
DiedAugust 26, 1883(1883-08-26) (aged 71)
Lampasas, Texas, U.S.
Resting placeOakwood Cemetery, Austin, Texas, U.S.
Political partyUnionist
Republican
ProfessionPolitician

Elisha Marshall Pease (January 3, 1812 – August 26, 1883) was a Texas politician. He served as the fifth and 13th governor of Texas.

Early life

Elisha Marshall Pease was born in January 3, 1812 to Lorrain Thompson Pease and Sarah Marshall Pease. The native of Enfield, Connecticutt attended Westfield Academy in Massachusetts.

Career

Among Pease's first jobs was a position as a clerk in Hartford, Connecticut. By early 1835, he moved the Mexican Texas, settling in the local district of Mina while studying law.

Texas Republic

Pease soon became active in the Texas independence movement and after the Texas Revolution began, Pease became the secretary of the provisional government. He served as the assistant secretary at the Convention of 1836 but was not an elected delegate to the Convention. After independence had been won, Pease was named the comptroller of public accounts in the government of the new but temporary Republic of Texas.

Texas State

Following the annexation of Texas to the United States, Pease was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1845 and reelected in 1847. In 1849, he ran for the Texas Senate from District 11 (Brazoria and Galveston counties) but lost to John B. Jones who was sworn in on November 5, 1849. Pease contested the election, was declared the winner, and was sworn in four days later on November 9, 1849.

Pease first ran for governor in 1851 but withdrew from the race two weeks before the election. He was elected in each of the next two elections, 1853 and 1855. As governor, he paid off the state debt and established the financial foundation that the state would later use to finance its schools and colleges.

The E. M. Pease Middle School is located at 201 Hunt Lane across from El Sendero subdivision in the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas.

Civil War and aftermath

After the war, he became a leader in the state Republican Party and was appointed as the civilian governor of Texas in 1867 by General Philip H. Sheridan, who was the military head of the Reconstruction government. Pease's policies as governor alienated both ex-Unionists and ex-Confederates and he resigned in 1869.

Personal life

Pease married Lucadia Christiana Niles in 1850. They had two daughters who reached maturity.

Shortly after their marriage, the Peases vacationed at Niagara Falls, New York. After brief stays in Cincinnati and Louisville, they lodged for a week at the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans.

During the American Civil War, Pease sided with the Union. He nonetheless enslaved several people; census records show ten enslaved people living and laboring at Pease's Austin plantation in 1860.

Death and legacy

Pease died on August 26, 1883 of apoplexy. He was buried in Austin.

In 1856, surveyor Jacob de Córdova of the Galveston, Houston, and Henderson Railroad Company named a newly discovered river in West Texas the "Pease River" after the governor.

In 1875, Elisha and Lucatia Pease donated their homestead to the City of Austin that would eventually become Pease Park.

Notes

  1. ^ Griffin, Roger (February 28, 2020). "Elisha Marshall Pease". Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  2. Hafertepe (1992), pp. 93−97.
  3. "Black History Month: Enslaved People Lived and Labored on this Land". Pease Park Conservancy. February 9, 2021. Retrieved December 17, 2024.
  4. "Pease River". Handbook of Texas Online. April 25, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2024.
  5. "The History of Pease Park". Pease Park Conservancy. Retrieved December 17, 2024.

References

  • Griffin, Roger, "He was made of turkey." (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1973).
  • Hafertepe, Kenneth (1992). Abner Cook: Master Builder on the Texas Frontier. Austin: Texas State Historical Press. ISBN 0-87611-102-9.

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Party political offices
First Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas
1853, 1855 		Succeeded byNone
Republican nominee for Governor of Texas
1865, 1866 		Succeeded byEdmund J. Davis
Texas Senate
Preceded byJohn B. Jones Texas State Senator
from District 11 (Brazoria)
1849–1851 		Succeeded byAdolphus Sterne
Political offices
Preceded byJames W. Henderson Governor of Texas
1853–1857 		Succeeded byHardin R. Runnels
Preceded byJames W. Throckmorton Governor of Texas
1867–1869 		Succeeded byEdmund J. Davis
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