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THE CAPITOL GALLERY OF THE OFFICIAL PORTRAITS OF THE GOVERNORS OF OHIO
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EDITOR'S NOTE
T HE official portraits of the Governors, as they hang in the Capitol at Columbus, have been selected from time to time as the best of our State Executives. Most of them have been painted by order of the State, the artists being selected for their skill and reputa- tion, and, in most instances, on account of their great personal knowledge of their subjects.
The reproductions from these portraits, that appear herein, have been executed by the most expert artists of the day, and the Association takes pleasure in submitting them.
PORTRAITS
ARTHUR ST. CLAIR
REUBEN WOOD
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
EDWARD TIFFIN
WILLIAM MEDILL SALMON P. CHASE
THOMAS KIRKER
WILLIAM DENNISON
SAMUEL HUNTINGTON
DAVID TOD
RETURN J. MEIGS
JOHN BROUGH
OTHNIEL LOOKER
CHARLES ANDERSON
THOMAS WORTHINGTON
J. D. COX
ETHAN A. BROWN
EDWARD F. NOYES
JEREMIAH MORROW
WILLIAM ALLEN RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
ALLEN TRIMBLE
DUNCAN McARTHUR
THOMAS L. YOUNG
ROBERT LUCAS
RICHARD M. BISHOP
JOSEPH VANCE
CHARLES FOSTER
WILSON SHANNON
GEORGE HOADLEY
THOMAS CORWIN
JOSEPH B. FORAKER
THOMAS BARTLEY
JAMES E. CAMPBELL
MORDECAI BARTLEY
WILLIAM McKINLEY
WILLIAM BEBB
SEABURY FORD
ASA S. BUSHNELL GEORGE K. NASH
MYRON T. HERRICK
ARTHUR ST. CLAIR Territorial Governor 1788-1802
ЯЈАЈО Те ЯИНТЯА Tom9vOD InioJimST 5081-8851
A RTHUR ST. CLAIR was born in Scotland, in 1734, and after receiving a classical education in one of the most celebrated universities of his native country, studied medicine ; but having a taste for military pursuits, he sought and obtained a subaltern's appoint- ment, and was with Wolfe in the storming of Quebec. After the peace of 1763, he was assigned the command of Fort Ligonier, in Pennsylvania, and received there a grant of 1,000 acres. Prior to the Revolutionary War, he held several civil offices. His military skill and experience, intelligence and integrity, were such, that when the Revolutionary War commenced, he was appointed Colonel of Conti- nentals. In August, 1776, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier, and bore an active part in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. After- wards he became Major-General, and when he abandoned Ticonderoga on the approach of Burgoyne's army, charges of cowardice, incapacity and treachery were brought against him. He was tried by court-mar- tial, and the fact was disclosed that the works were incomplete, and incapable of being defended against the whole British army; he was acquitted, with the highest honor, of the charges against him. After the passage of the ordinance for the government of the Northwestern Territory, he was made Governor, and continued in the office until within a few weeks of the termination of the Territorial form of gov- ernment, in the winter of 1802-3, when he was removed by President Jefferson. On the 31st of August, 1818, after a long and useful life, Governor St. Clair died near Greensburg, aged eighty-four years.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON Acting Territorial Governor 1798
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W ILLIAM HENRY HARRISON was born at Berkeley, on James River, twenty-five miles from Richmond, Va., in 1773. He was the youngest of three sons of Benjamin Harrison, who represented Vir- ginia in Congress. William Henry Harrison entered Hampton Sydney College, which he left at seventeen years of age. He then be- gan the study of medicine, but the death of his father checked his professional aspirations; he then resolved to enter the service of the Government in a campaign against the Indians of the West. His guardian, the celebrated Robert Morris, opposed his wishes, but in vain; General Washington yielded to the importunities of the youth, and presented him with an ensign's commission. With characteristic ardor he departed for Fort Washington, now Cincinnati, where, how- ever, he arrived too late to participate in the unfortunate campaign of St. Clair. After the treaty of Greenville, in 1795, he was given com- mand of Fort Washington. He resigned the commission in a short time, and began his civil career at the age of twenty-four. He was appointed by President Adams, Secretary to Governor St. Clair. He was Lieutenant-Governor ex-officio, and Acting Governor during the frequent and prolonged absence of General St. Clair. In 1801, he was appointed by Mr. Adams Governor of Indiana Territory. Among his duties was that of Commissioner to treat with the Indians. In this capacity he concluded fifteen treaties, and purchased their title to up- ward to seventy million acres of land. On the 6th of November, 18II, the battle of Tippecanoe was fought. Victory declared in favor of dis- cipline, at the expense, however, of some of the most gallant spirits of the age. After the surrender of Hull he was appointed Major- General in the army of the United States. To do justice to this part of the biography requires a volume of itself. In 1840, General Har- rison was called by the people of the United States to preside over the country as its Chief Magistrate. His death, which caused a deep sen- sation throughout the country, occurred April 4, 1841, just a month after his inauguration. He was the first President of the United States that died in office.
EDWARD TIFFIN First Constitutional Governor 1803-1807
ИЮНЯІТ CЯАЖаЗ
5081-8081
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EDWARD TIFFIN, the first Constitutional Governor of Ohio, was born in Carlisle, England, June 19, 1766. He received a good English education, and began the study of medicine, which he continued on his emigration-at eighteen years of age-to Berkeley County, Va. In 1789 he graduated from the University of Pennsyl- vania. In the same year he married Mary, sister of Thomas Worth- ington, of Charleston, W. Va. In 1796 he manumitted his slaves, and, accompanied by his brother-in-law, and Robert Lucas, removed to Chillicothe. In 1802, he was chosen President of the first Constitu- tional Convention; afterwards candidate for Governor, to which office he was re-elected in January, 1803, without opposition. Two years later he was re-elected, and the office was tendered him the third time, but he declined. The most notable incident of his administration was the suppression of the Burr-Blennerhassett expedition. At the close of his second term as Governor, he was elected to the United States Senate. In 1809, the death of his much beloved wife was a serious blow to Senator Tiffin; he resigned his seat in the Senate, and retired to private life. The new State of Ohio was fortunate in having for its first Chief Executive a man of such extraordinary and versatile talents. The formative condition of affairs gave opportunity for dis- play of his genius, and his able administration was of inestimable value in developing and advancing the interests of the young commonwealth. He died August 9, 1829.
THOMAS KIRKER Acting 1807-1808
ЯЗНЯІЯ ГАМОНТ
8081-5081
T HOMAS KIRKER, of Irish ancestry, was among the early settlers in Adams County. He was popular with his associates, but of limited talents. He was one of that coterie of Democrats that brought about the political overthrow of Governor St. Clair in the Territory. He was commissioned by St. Clair a Justice of the Peace, at the or- ganization of Adams County, through influence of his friend, Nathaniel Massie, and as such became a Judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions. He was a member of the first Constitutional Convention. He served many years in the Legislature, both in Senate and House. In 1807, Return J. Meigs, of Washington County, was elected Gov- ernor, but his election being contested, the General Assembly decided that he was not eligible, because he had not been a resident of the State the required time by the Constitution. At the time Thomas Kirker was Speaker of the Senate, and thereupon became Acting Gov- ernor. Governor Kirker, while not a brilliant man, played a strong part in the early history of the State. His fidelity to friends and duty seems to have been his chief characteristic.
SAMUEL HUNTINGTON 1808-1810
ИОТДИІТИОН JaUMAR 0181-8081
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S AMUEL HUNTINGTON was born in 1765. He was the adopted son of Samuel Huntington, an eminent lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated at Yale College, in 1785; was admitted to the bar in 1793, and began the practice of law in his native State, Connecticut. He removed to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1801, and in this State passed the remainder of his days. Prior to his nomina- tion for Governor, he held the offices of Judge of the Superior Court, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and State Senator. In 1808, he was elected Governor of the State of Ohio. His administration was stormy, its chief distinction being, "The Sweeping Resolution," which was an attempt to subordinate the Judiciary to the Legislature, and which happily ended in failure. Notwithstanding the radical and undemo- cratic ideas that Governor Huntington, at times, exercised, he was considered an able man and lawyer. While in college he was always a leader, and in civil life he continued to be one; although his life was not as brilliant and glittering as some, it was at least even and honest. He died at Painesville, Ohio, in 1817, aged fifty-two years.
RETURN JONATHAN MEIGS 1810-1814
ГОІЗМ ИАНТАИОЇ ИЯИТАЯ
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R ETURN JONATHAN MEIGS was born at Middletown, Conn., in 1765; graduated at Yale, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in his native town. He was among the first settlers of Marietta. In the winter of 1802-3, he was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State. The next year he resigned this office, having re- ceived from Jefferson the appointment of Commandant of the United States troops and militia in the Upper District of Louisiana, and shortly after was appointed one of the judges of the Territory of Louisiana. In April, 1807, he was commissioned a judge of Michigan Territory; resigned the commission in October, to become a candidate for Governor of Ohio; was elected, in a spirited canvass, over his com- petitor, General Massie; but not having the constitutional qualifications of the four years' residence in the State, prior to the election, his elec- tion was contested, and decided against him. In the session of 1807-8, he was appointed Senator in Congress, which office he afterwards re- signed, and was elected Governor of Ohio in 1810. In March, 1814, having been appointed Postmaster General of the United States, he resigned that office, and continued his new vocation until 1823. He died at Marietta, March 29, 1825.
OTHNIEL LOOKER Acting 1814
ОДНИЈЕГ ГООКЕВ gnitoA A181
O THNIEL LOOKER was born in the State of New York, of humble parentage, in 1757. He enlisted as a private in the Rev- olutionary Army; serving through the war. In 1784, having received a grant of land in the wilderness of the Northwest, he crossed the Alle- ghenies, and locating his grant, built his cabin, and commenced his life labor as a hard working farmer. He devoted himself strictly to the business of a farmer, and on the organization of the State was elected a member of the Legislature. Here he availed himself of the advan- tages such a school afforded, and so rose in public esteem as to be sent to the Senate. He became Speaker of that body, and when Governor Meigs resigned the Governorship in 1814, he became the fourth Gov- ernor of Ohio. He served but eight months, returning to his farm, respected by all as a man of clear mind, much intelligence and peaceful disposition. Strange to say, no records are available to make a more satisfactory sketch. He died unmarried.
THOMAS WORTHINGTON 1814-1818
ИОТБИІНТЯOW ГАМОНТ 8181-A181
T HOMAS WORTHINGTON, one of the earliest and most dis- tinguished pioneers of Ohio, was born in Jefferson County, Va., about the year 1769, and settled in Ross County in 1798. He brought from Virginia a large number of slaves, whom he emancipated, and some of their descendants yet remain in Chillicothe. A man of ardent temperament, of energy of mind, and correct habits of life, he soon became distinguished both in business and in political stations. He was a member of the Convention of 1803, to form a State Constitution, in which he was both able and active. Soon after that he became a Senator in Congress from the new State, and was a participant in the most important measures of the administrations of Jefferson and Madison. At the close of his career in Congress, he was elected Gov- ernor of the State, in which capacity he was the friend and aid of all the liberal and wise measures of policy which were the foundation of the great prosperity of Ohio. After his retirement from the guberna- torial chair, he was appointed a member of the first board of Canal Commissioners, in which capacity he served until his death. A large landholder, engaged in various and extensive business, and for thirty years in public stations, no man in Ohio did more to form its character and promote its prosperity. He died in 1827.
ETHAN ALLEN BROWN 1818-1822
ИМОЯЯ ИЗЈА иАнта SS 81-8181
ETHAN ALLEN BROWN was born in Darien, Conn., July 4 1766. He studied law with Alexander Hamilton; removed to Cincinnati in 1804, and began the practice of his profession. His abil- ity as a lawyer and broad-minded man was soon recognized, and in 1810 he was offered, and accepted, a seat on the Supreme Bench, where he remained until 1818, when he was elected Governor of Ohio, and at once began the agitation of the subject of constructing canals. In 1820, he was re-elected Governor over Jeremiah Morrow and Gen. William Henry Harrison; in 1822 he was elected to the United States Senate ; from 1830 to 1834, United States Minister to Brazil; later Commis- sioner of Public Lands, and then retired to private life. As Governor, Senator and Minister to Brazil, he showed marked ability; though posi- tive in dealing with great questions and men, there was always an undercurrent of sympathy ; he being ever ready to assist the weak, and give a helping hand to the needy. His career from the beginning was a useful one; the concentration and control of all his forces, brought about by strict habits of life and constant employment, had much to do with the success of his life. He died in 1852, in Indianapolis, after a long and useful career.
JEREMIAH MORROW 1822-1826
МОЯЯОМ НАмаяз 0581-5581
EREMIAH MORROW was born in Gettysburg, Pa., October 6, J 1771. He was of Scotch-Irish descent. In 1795, he removed to the Northwest Territory, and settled at the mouth of the Little Miami River, but soon moved up to what is now Warren County. In 1801 he was elected to the Territorial Legislature; was a delegate to the first Constitutional Convention in 1802; was elected to the State Senate in 1803, and in the same year to Congress, serving for ten years as the sole representative of Ohio in the Lower House. In 1814 he was Commissioner, to treat with all the Indians west of the Miami River. From 1813 to 1819 he was a member of the United States Senate, and served as Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands. In 1822 he was elected Governor, and re-elected at the end of his term. He served as Canal Commissioner in 1820-22. He was also the first President of the Little Miami Railroad Company. In 1841 he was elected to Con- gress; while in Congress Mr. Morrow drafted most of the laws pro- viding for the survey and disposal of public lands. He introduced measures which led to the construction of the Cumberland Road, and in February, 1816, presented the first report recommending a general system of internal improvements. As Governor of Ohio, he indus- triously furthered the interests of the public works, which were com- menced during his administration. He died March 22, 1852.
ALLEN TRIMBLE 1822, Acting 1826-1830 .
ЗЛАМІЯТ ИЗЈА gnito A . SS81 0881-0581
A LLEN TRIMBLE was born in Augusta County, Va., November 24, 1783. His parents were of Scotch-Irish stock. His father, Captain James, removed to Lexington, Ky., and shortly after his death, which occurred in 1804, Allen settled in Highland County, where he was Clerk of the Courts and Records in 1809-16. In the war of 1812 he commanded a mounted regiment under Gen. William Henry Harrison, and rendered efficient service. He was sent to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1816; was elected State Senator in 1817; was made Speaker of that body, and held the position until January 7, 1822, when he became Acting Governor, and served to the end of that year. In 1826, he was elected Governor, and re-elected in 1828. In 1846-48 was President of the first State Board of Agriculture. As Governor he did much to extend and improve the common school system, encourage manufacturers and promote penitentiary reform. He was a man of strong religious feeling, of strict integrity, shrewd, and possessed much of which is generally called "good common sense." These qualities made his career of great service to the people of Ohio. He died at the age of eighty-seven, at Hillsboro, Ohio, February 3, 1870.
DUNCAN MCARTHUR 1830-1832
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ЯУНТЯАОМ Идойна SE81-0881
D UNCAN McARTHUR, who was of Scotch parentage, was born in Duchess County, N. Y., in 1772, and when eight years of age, his father removed to the frontiers of Pennsylvania. His father was in indigent circumstances, and Duncan, when of sufficient age, hired out as a laborer. At the age of eighteen years he was a volunteer in Harmar's campaign. In the spring of 1793 he engaged as a chain bearer to Gen. Nathaniel Massie, and penetrated with him and others into the Scioto Valley, to make surveys, at times when such an enter- , prise was full of danger from the Indians. He afterward became an assistant surveyor to General Massie, and aided him to lay out Chilli- cothe. He, in the course of this business, became engaged in the pur- chase and sale of lands, by which he acquired great landed wealth. In 1805 he was a member of the Legislature from Ross County; in 1806, elected Colonel, and in 1808, Major-General of the State Militia. In May, 1812, he was commissioned Colonel in the Ohio Volunteers, afterwards marched to Detroit, and himself and regiment were in- cluded in Hull's surrender. After his return as a prisoner of war on parole, the Democratic party in 1812 elected him to Congress by an overwhelming majority. He resigned his seat in Congress, March, 1803, and was commissioned Brigadier-General. After peace was de- clared, he was elected to the Legislature; in 1822 was again chosen to Congress, and in 1830 was elected Governor of Ohio by the anti- Jackson party; after his term expired, he again ran for Congress, but was defeated, which terminated his political career. By an unfortu- nate accident, in June, 1830, McArthur was horribly bruised and maimed, and from this severe misfortune his bodily and mental powers constantly declined, until death, several years after, closed his career.
ROBERT LUCAS 1832-1836
РАЈИЈ ТЯЗНОЯ 2881-8881
R OBERT LUCAS was born in Sheperdstown, Va., April 1, 1781. His father was a Captain in the Revolutionary Army, and a de- scendant of William Penn. The son removed to Ohio in 1802, and settled near the mouth of the Scioto River, where Portsmouth now stands. He raised a battalion of volunteers for the war of 1812; served as Brigadier-General, and saw considerable service at Fort Meigs and Lower Sandusky. He removed to Piketon, and there, in connec- tion with his brother, conducted a general store. He was several times elected to the Ohio Senate and House, serving as Speaker of the latter. In 1832 he presided over the Democratic National Convention that nominated Andrew Jackson for a second term. The same year he was elected Governor of Ohio, defeating his opponent, Gen. Duncan McArthur by one vote. In 1834 he was re-elected Governor. While Governor, the "Toledo War" occurred, and he successfully maintained the Ohio side of the controversy. In 1848 he was appointed by President Van Buren the first Territorial Governor of Iowa. Gov- ernor Lucas was a man of strong personalities; his determination, to- gether with good judgment, made him not only a good soldier, but a valuable public servant; his services to his State and country were in- valuable, and came at a time when strength, both mental and moral, was most needed. He died in Iowa City, Ia., February 7, 1853.
JOSEPH VANCE 1836-1838
JONAV H93201 8881-8881
J OSEPH VANCE was born in Washington, Pa., in 1786, of Scotch-
Irish stock. In 1805 he came with his father to Urbana, and took an active part in public matters. He was a militia officer prior to, and during the war of 1812. During the same year he was elected to the State Legislature, and was sent to Congress in 1820, and remained there until 1836; and was again elected in 1843. In 1827 he advocated the repair and extension of the National Road, then Called the Cumber- land Road, through Ohio and other States of the West, and in a speech in Congress in support of a bill before the House, made some hard thrusts at the advocates of State rights. In politics, he was a Whig of the Henry Clay school; a great friend of public improvements, and one of the first men of the country to import thoroughbred stock. He had a pleasant and talkative disposition, and a happy faculty of describing scenes of public life he had witnessed, and the public men he had met. As a speaker, he had a strong, rich voice, speaking with great earnest- ness and force, and without the art of the practiced debater. He was elected Governor of the State of Ohio in 1837, and again in 1851. While acting as a member of the Convention to Revise the Constitution of the State, he was stricken with paralysis, and the next year died on his farm, two miles north of Urbana.
WILSON SHANNON 1838-1840 1842-1844
ИОИИАНЕ МогJIW 0A81-8881 AABI-SABI
W TILSON SHANNON was born February 24, 1802, in a cabin at Mount Olivet, Belmont County, Ohio. This county has the honor of being the first to supply the State with an Ohio-born Governor. H'e was of Irish descent. Wilson Shannon was educated at Athens and Transylvania University, and then studied law with Charles Hammond and David Jennings, at St. Clairsville, and soon became eminent at the bar. In 1838, he was elected Governor on the Democratic ticket, by 5,738 votes over Joseph Vance, the Whig candidate; defeated in 1840, by Mr. Corwin, and in 1842, elected Governor the second time. In 1844 was appointed Minister to Mexico. In 1852 was sent to Con- gress, where he was one of the four Ohio Democrats who voted for the Kansas and Nebraska bill. President Pierce later appointed him Gov- ernor of Kansas, which position he resigned in 1857, and resumed the practice of law. In 1875, in connection with the Hon. Jeremiah Black, of Pennsylvania, he argued the celebrated Osage Land Case before the Supreme Court, and won the case for the settlers. As a lawyer, he was bold, diligent, courageous, and ever ready to assist the weak and struggling. Possessing a noble presence in his old age, he was de- scribed as a picture of the hardy, hale old gentleman of the olden times. He died in 1877, and was buried at Lawrence, Kan., where the last twenty years of his life had been passed.
THOMAS CORWIN 1840-1842
ИДЛЯОО ГАМОНТ SA81-0481
T HOMAS CORWIN was born in Kentucky, July 29, 1794. His father removed to the Northwest Territory in 1798. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar at Lebanon, Ohio, in 1817. In 1821, he was elected to the Legislature. In 1830 he was elected to Congress on the anti-Jackson ticket, by a handsome majority. While in Con- gress he was nominated by the Whig party as a candidate for Gov- ernor; resigned his seat, and was elected in 1840, over Wilson Shan- non, by the largest majority received in the State of Ohio since the division of the voters into two political parties. In 1845 Governor Corwin was elected United States Senator by the Whig party. He was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Fillmore in 1850. He was re-elected to Congress in 1858, and on March 12, 1861, President Lincoln appointed him Minister to Mexico. On his return from Mexico he opened a law office in Washington, and his earthly career terminated suddenly in the following year. He was stricken with paralysis, and died in Washington, December 18, 1865. The sudden death of Corwin touched the heart of the nation; the people everywhere felt that a great man, a true patriot, and a wonderful genius, had departed. Corwin was truly a wonderful man; as an orator he had few equals, and as a statesman had no superiors.
THOMAS WELLES BARTLEY Acting 1844
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