The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Anthony, Henry B.

ANTHONY, Henry B., an American journalist and senator, born at Coventry, R. I., April 1, 1815 He was educated at Brown university, became in 1838 editor of the “Providence Journal,” was governor of Rhode Island in 1849 and 1850, and declined a reëlection in 1851. In 1859 he was elected United States senator as a republican, succeeding Philip Allen, a democrat; was reëlected in 1864, and again in 1870. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia convention of 1866, and president pro tempore of the senate for some time in 1869 and 1871.