John Pease Sanderson (November 28, 1816 – June 28, 1871) was a delegate of the Florida Secession Convention in

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, and then a

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member of the

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during the

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Biography

John Sanderson was born in

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, Bennington County,

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, to John H. and Sarah (Laurence) Sanderson. He graduated from

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in 1839. Before the civil war erupted, he was a lawyer, secessionist Democrat and was part of the Planter Class in Jacksonville, Florida. He became a member of the Florida State House of Representatives in 1843, was the solicitor of the Eastern Circuit of Florida from 1848 to 1852 and became a Florida State Senator in 1848. He was a delegate to both the Florida Secession Convention of 1861 and then to the

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from February 5–17, 1862, replacing

George Taliaferro Ward George Taliaferro Ward (1810 – May 5, 1862) was a major cotton planter and politician from Leon County, Florida. He served in the Confederate Army as a colonel during the American Civil War, dying near Williamsburg, Virginia. Early life and m ...

. He was president of the Florida, Atlantic, and Gulf Central Railroad in 1857, and vice-president of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad. John was married twice. He first married Mary E. Harrison (daughter of Robert Harrison of

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, Florida) on February 23, 1843. They had no children. Following her death on April 27, 1857, he later married her sister Marion R. Harrison on July 28, 1858. They had 2 children. He died June 28, 1871, in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sanderson, John Pease 1816 births 1871 deaths People of Florida in the American Civil War Deputies and delegates to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States Members of the Florida House of Representatives Florida state senators Amherst College alumni 19th-century Florida politicians