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RARE “19th Century Governor of Rhode Island” Henry B. Anthony Cut Signature:
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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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