Elisha M. Pease

Elisha Marshall Pease (January 3, 1812 – August 26, 1883) was an American politician who served as the fifth and 13th governor of Texas from 1853 to 1857 and again from 1867 to 1869.

Early life Elisha Marshall Pease was born on January 3, 1812, to Lorrain Thompson Pease and Sarah Marshall Pease. He attended Westfield Academy in Massachusetts.

Career Among Pease's first jobs was a position as a clerk in Hartford, Connecticut. By early 1835, he moved to Mexican Texas, settling in the local district of Mina while studying law.

During the American Civil War, Pease sided with the Union. He nonetheless enslaved several people; census records show ten enslaved people living and laboring at Pease's Austin plantation in 1860.

Death and legacy Pease died on August 26, 1883, of apoplexy. He was buried in Austin.

In 1875, Elisha and Lucatia Pease donated their homestead to the City of Austin that would eventually become Pease Park.