2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Elisha Marshall Pease (1812-1883) was a Texas politician. He served as the fifth and 13th governor of Texas. Following the annexation of Texas to the United States, Pease was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1845 and reelected in 1847. 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. 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. Autograph Letter Signed Twice “E.M. Pease” responding to an autograph seeker, 1pp. Datelined: Austin Texas May 8, 1875, in part “I send you herewith my signature with the years that I was Governor ....”
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