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 &ldquo;Providence Journal,&rdquo; 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.