Henry Bowen Anthony

U. S. Senator, Rhode Island, 1858-1884

Born: April 1, 1815, Coventry, Rhode Island

• Attended a private school in Providence, R. I.
  
• Brown University graduate in 1833.
  
• Editor of the Providence Journal in 1838, and afterwards became one of its proprietors.
  
• Elected Governor of Rhode Island in 1849.
  
• Reelected Governor of Rhode Island in 1850.
  
• Declined to be a candidate for renomination, resumed editorial pursuits.
  
• Elected as a Republican to the U. S. Senate in 1858.
  
• Reelected to United States Senate in 1864.
  
• Reelected to U. S. Senate in 1870.
  
• Reelected to U. S. Senate in 1876.
  
• Reelected to U. S. Senate in 1882.
  
• Elected President pro tempore of the Senate March 23, 1869.
  
• Elected President pro tempore of the Senate April 8, 1869.
  
• Elected President pro tempore of the Senate May 28, 1870.
  
• Elected President pro tempore of the Senate July 1, 1870.
  
• Elected President pro tempore of the Senate July 14, 1870.
  
• Elected President pro tempore of the Senate repeatedly in 1871.
  
• Elected President pro tempore of the Senate in 1884, but because of ill health declined to serve.
  
• Served in U. S. Senate from March 4, 1859, until his death.

Died: September 2, 1884, Providence, Rhode Island

(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)