Henry Sebastian Evans (April 1, 1813 – February 9, 1872) was an American politician from Pennsylvania.
[1] At the age of 14, he left school and was apprenticed in printing at the office of the Village Record published by Charles Miner in West Chester.
[4] In 1848, Evans published an editorial in the Village Record expressing his outrage at Maryland slave catchers crossing over the border into Pennsylvania, breaking into a magistrate's house in Downingtown, pointing a gun at the owner and capturing a sixteen year old girl they claimed was an escaped slave.
[2][3][7] Evans served as a Whig member of the Pennsylvania Senate for the 4th district of Chester and Delaware counties from 1852 to 1854.
He won the Whig party nomination for governor of Pennsylvania but withdrew from the race possibly due to an illness in the family.
He was elected as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania Senate in 1870 to represent the 5th district.