Francis Bates Pond was a Republican politician from the state of Ohio.

Pond was born August 9, 1825, at Ellisburg, Jefferson County, New York.

During the Civil War, he served as a colonel with the Sixty-second Ohio Infantry, and August, 1864, at the Battle of Deep River, he was wounded, and lost sight in his left eye.

[2] In 1879 he was elected to the Ohio Senate from the Fourteenth district (Washington, Morgan and part of Noble County), for the Sixty-fourth General Assembly, and re-elected to the Sixty-fifth in 1881.

[2] He died as a result of the wound he received near his eye in the Civil War which he had suffered with for nineteen years.