RARE "21st Governor of RI" Henry B. Anthony Cut Signature For Sale
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RARE "21st Governor of RI" Henry B. Anthony Cut Signature:
$104.99
Up for sale a RARE! "21st Governor of Rhode Island" Henry B. Anthony Clipped Signature.
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Henry
Bowen Anthony (April 1, 1815 –
September 2, 1884) was a United States newspaperman and political figure. He served as editor and was later part owner
of the Providence Journal. He
was the 21st Governor of Rhode Island,
serving between 1849 and 1851 as a member of the Whig Party. Near the end of the 1850s, he was elected to
the Senate by the Rhode Island Legislature and
was re-elected 4 times. He would be twice elected to the Senate's highest post
as President pro tempore during the Grant administration,
and served until his death in 1884. The son of William Anthony and Mary
Kennicut Greene, Anthony was born in Rhode Island. He attended Brown University, graduating in 1833 at the age of 18. After
his graduation, he went to work as a broker in his brother's cotton products
firm, sometimes residing in Savannah, Georgia. He later invested in the firm when his
father died in 1845 and earned a substantial income from his investment. He
became editor of the Providence Journal in 1838. In 1840, he
was admitted into the partnership, the paper then being published by Knowles,
Vose & Anthony until the death of Vose in 1848, when it was continued by
Knowles & Anthony until 1863, when it became Knowles, Anthony & Danielson.
Anthony also wrote poetry. As editor of the Journal,
Anthony was a conservative, supporting law and order, property
requirements for voting, and restrictions on the political power of immigrants.
In 1849, and again in 1850, he was elected governor of Rhode Island. As a Whig at the first
election he had a majority of 1,556; at the second, fewer than 1,000 votes were
cast against him. After declining a third election, he gave himself once more
entirely to his editorial work. In 1855, he traveled in Europe, sending letters
with unfavorable observations back to the Journal. On returning, he
joined the Know Nothing movement
and used the Journal to back its American Party. In Rhode
Island, the American Party merged into the Republican Party,
and Anthony was elected to the United States Senate as
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