Henry Pease

Henry Gustavo Pease García, known as Henry Pease, (11 December 1944 – 9 August 2014) was a Peruvian politician and a former Congressman. He ran for President under the United Left in the 1990 general elections but placed fourth with 8.2% of the popular vote and failed to qualify for the run-off. Biography Pease was born on 11 December 1944 in Lima. He ran for President under the United Left in the 1990 general elections but placed fourth with 8.2% of the popular vote and failed to qualify for the run-off which was eventually won by Alberto Fujimori. Two years later, he was elected as a Congressman in the Democratic Constituent Congress and three years later in 1995 in the Congress of the Republic and served until 2006. In the general elections of 2000, he was a candidate for the 1st Vice Presidency on the presidential roster of Máximo San Román for Union for Peru, however, said roster did not pass to the runoff and Pease was only re-elected Congressman for the parliamentary period 2000-2005. He participated in the March of the Four Suyos where he was an opponent of the dictatorship of Alberto Fujimori and in November of the same year, he was elected Second Vice President of Congress on the Board of Directors chaired by Valentín Paniagua (2000), who later became Temporary President. After the fall of the Fujimori regime in November 2000, his parliamentary position was reduced until 2001 when new general elections were called. While he was serving in the Democratic Constituent Congress, he was a member of the Democratic Left Movement. He served as the President of the Congress for a year between 2003 and 2004. He tried to run for Congress again in the 2011 general elections, under the Possible Peru Alliance, representing Lima, but he was not elected as he attained a low number of votes and retired from politics. Death He died on 9 August 2014 in Lima at the age of 69.