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Permanent LinkSenator James Blakeny Pease View All Years
JAMES BLAKENY PEASE was born in Washington county, Pa., January 24, 1817; he died in Ft. Madison, Iowa, May 9, 1905. In 1851 he removed with his family to Lee county, Iowa, where he· purchased a large farm. In 1865 he sold it and settled in Van Buren county, where for the next fifteen years he engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1880 he purchased a home in Ft. Madison, in which place he afterward resided. He served as member of the Iowa house of representatives from Lee county in the 6th general assembly, and as senator from Van Buren county in the 15th and 16th general assemblies. For forty-five years he had been an elder in the Presbyterian church.