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Elisha Marshall Pease (January 3 1812 – August 26 1883) was a Texas politician. He served as the fifth and thirteenth governor of Texas.A native of Enfield Connecticut Pease moved to Mexican Texas in 1835. He soon became active in the Texas independence movement and after the Texas Revolution began Pease became the secretary of the provisional government and co-wrote the new Texas Constitution.
