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RICHARD MOORE BISHOP 1878-1880
ЧонГІЯ зяооМ аядная 0881-8581
RICHARD MOORE BISHOP was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, November 4, 1812. After a fair common school education, he entered into mercantile pursuits in his native county. In 1847 he removed to Cincinnati, where later he became a senior member of the wholesale firm of R. M. Bishop & Co. In April, 1857, Mr. Bishop took his seat as a member of the City Council, and in the following year was elected President of that body. This was followed in 1859 by his election as Mayor. He was a member of the Consti- tutional Convention and for many years one of the Trustees of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad. It was largely through his acquaint- ance and popularity in Kentucky and Tennessee that the rights of way were secured for the great outlet, which was so essential to the prosperity of Cincinnati. In 1877 the Democratic party nomi- nated him to lead a forlorn hope for the governorship. At that time he was sixty-five years of age, but in perfect health and vigor. It was on his part a great "handshaking" campaign, which resulted, much to the surprise of his opponents, in success by a large plurality. He served but one term, retiring with the respect and esteem of the people of the State. Governor Bishop died at Jacksonville Fla., March 2, 1893.
CHARLES FOSTER 1880-1884
ЯЗТВОЯ ВОЛЯАНО #881-0881
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C HARLES FOSTER was born in Seneca County, Ohio, April 12, 1828. His parents were from Massachusetts. He received a common school education and engaged in business pursuits in the early part of his life. In 1870 he was elected to Congress and served for eight years, although his district was politically very strong against him. While in Congress he was noted for the straightforward and businesslike view that he took of all measures. He was one of the Republican leaders of that body. He was not the politician, but the business man, honest, able and courageous. The Republican Party, in 1879, nominated him for Governor and he was elected. Two years later he was re-elected. He administered State affairs with great success. He took advanced ground on taxing the liquor traffic and his party-in fact the entire people of Ohio-have endorsed his views. After his time expired as Governor he returned to Fostoria, devoting his attention to business affairs. His was phenomenal individuality -one that has illustrated that a man can be Governor of this great State and at the same moment "Charlie" to everybody in it. Being born in Fostoria when all around was woods, growing up with the people, ever manifesting a cheerful, generous helping spirit, his life illustrates the fraternal idea; so the humblest individual of his home community rejoice that he is one of them.
GEORGE HOADLEY 1884-1886
СЕОВСЕ HOVDГЕЛ 2881-7881
G EORGE HOADLEY was born at New Haven, Conn., July 31, 1825. He is of the old Jonathan Edwards stock; his great grand- mother, Mary Edwards, who married Major Timothy Dwight, was a daughter of the great divine. George Hoadley graduated at Western Reserve College and Harvard Law School, and in 1849 became a part- ner in the law firm of Chase & Ball, Cincinnati. In 1851, at the age of twenty-five, he was elected a Judge of the Superior Court of Cin- cinnati, and was City Solicitor in 1855. In 1858 he succeeded Judge Gholson on the bench of the new Superior Court. His friend and partner, Gov. Salmon P. Chase, offered him a seat on the Supreme Court Bench, which he declined, as he did also in 1862, a similar offer made by Govenro Tod. In 1866 he resigned his place in the Superior Court and resumed legal practice. He was an active member of the Constitutional Convention of 1873-74, and in October, 1883, was elected Governor of Ohio, defeating Joseph B. Foraker, by whom he was in turn defeated in 1885. During the Civil War he became a Republican, but in 1876 his opposition to a protective tariff led him again to affiliate with the Democratic party. He was one of the coun- sel that successfully opposed the project of a compulsory reading of the Bible in the public schools, and was leading counsel for the assignee and creditors in the case of Archbishop Purcell. He was professor in the Cincinnati Law School in 1864-1887, and for many years a trustee in the University. In March, 1887, he removed to New York and be- came the head of a law firm. He died at Watkins, New York, August 26, 1902.
JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER 1886-1890
ЯЗЛАЯОТ ИОгиНЯ НЯЗГОЙ 0081-8881
J JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER was born July 5, 1846, in a log cabin, about one mile north of Rainsboro. His ancestors came to Ohio from Virginia and Delaware on account of distaste of slavery. Bred on his father's farm, he assisted him on the farm, and the grist and saw mill thereon. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the Eighty- ninth Ohio Infantry, and distinguished himself wherever duty called him. He was made Sergeant in August, 1862; First Lieutenant in March, 1865; was breveted Captain "for efficient services." He was at the battle of Missionary Ridge, Kennesaw Mountain, Lookout Mountain, and was with Sherman on his march to the sea. He was mustered out of the army, after a brave and brilliant service, when but nineteen years of age. After the war he spent two years at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, and thence went to Cornell University. He graduated there July 1, 1869. In 1879 he was elected Judge of the Superior Court, of Cincinnati, which position he held for three years. In 1883 he was nominated for Governor, but was de- feated by Judge Hoadley, the Democratic candidate. In 1885 he was again nominated and elected. He was re-nominated, and re-elected in 1887. In 1889 he was again re-nominated, but was defeated by the Democratic candidate, James E. Campbell, of Butler County. His ad- ministrations have been marked by a brave and conscientious execution of all duties that are made his under the law. As an orator, for fearless and passionate eloquence, he has no superior in the State. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1897, and re-elected in 1903; his marked ability as a leader and statesman is unquestioned. He has several times been mentioned, prominently, in connection with the Presidency.
JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL 1890-1892
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JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL was born at Middletown, Ohio,
July 7, 1843. He was the son of Dr. Andrey and Laura Campbell, and grandson of Samuel and Mary Campbell. He received an academic education, and served in the United States Navy, enlisting in 1863, and taking part in the Mississippi and Red River Expedition in the Civil War, after which he taught school to raise money for the prosecution of his legal studies. He was admitted to the bar, and began the prac- tice of his profession in Hamilton County, Ohio. In 1876, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Butler County, Ohio, and held the office four years. In 1882, he was elected on the Democratic ticket as a Representative to the Forty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth. In 1889 he was elected Governor of Ohio, defeating Joseph B. Foraker, after an exciting canvass. As Governor he called an extraordinary session of the Sixty-ninth General Assembly, October 14, 1890, to consider the affairs of the City of Cincinnati, and the act that passed, reorganizing the municipal govern- ment, was subsequently declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. In 1891 he was defeated in the gubernatorial canvass by Wil- liam McKinley, although the ran 9,000 votes ahead of the ticket. He was again defeated by Asa S. Bushnell in 1895.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY 1892-1896
УЗИІНОМ MAILII de81-5881
W TILLIAM MCKINLEY was born at Niles, Ohio, January 29, 1843. He came from Scotch-Irish ancestry, and his grand- father, John McKinley, was a Revolutionary soldier. After receiving a common school and partial college education, he taught school, and clerked until the war broke out, when he enlisted as a private in the Twenty-third Ohio Infantry. Advancement came frequently and de- servedly, and he was mustered out with rank of Major. He was in all respects a typical American soldier, just as throughout his long and successful career he was a typical American citizen. After attending Albany Law School he removed to Canton, and served the County of Stark for one term as Prosecuting Attorney. Engaging actively in politics, he was sent to Congress for fourteen years, during all of which time he held a high place in the councils of his party. He was, above all things and beyond everybody else, the champion of a pro- tective tariff, and in the Fifty-first Congress (the last he served in), he succeeded in passing a tariff bill to his entire satisfaction, and that tariff has gone into history, indelibly associated with his name. In 1891 he was elected Governor, and re-elected in 1893. He was elected President of the United States in 1896, and re-elected in 1900, by ma- jorities unprecedented in our history. He held this great office during the Spanish, Filipino and Chinese Wars, when history was rapidly making; when the trade relations of the whole world were revolu- tionized, and when prosperity of the country resulting therefrom. had gone far beyond his fondest expectations. In the midst of it all, and while at the apex of his career, he fell by the hand of an assassin, at Buffalo, New York, September 14, 1901. He died as one might wish to die, when all the world spoke his praise; when he had many friends and no enemies; when his past was a monument of glory, and when, to him, the Christian of childlike faith, the future was secure.
ASA SMITH BUSHNELL 1896-1900
ЈЈзингИЯ HTIME AZA 0001-де81
ASA SMITH BUSHNELL, of Springfield, was born at Rome, N. Y., on September 26, 1834. His grandfather, Jason Bushnell, was a revolutionary soldier who saw much service. His great-uncle, William Bushnell, was one of the forty-eight who made the first settle- ment at Marietta, and the stone tablet commemorating that event bears his name. His father, Daniel Bushnell, removed to Cincinnati in 1845, and in 1851 the future Governor removed to Springfield, where he resided up to the time of his death. In all these years he was engaged in active business, continually rising in influence and growing in wealth. During the Civil War Governor Bushnell served as a Captain in the One Hundred and Fifty-second Ohio Infantry. In politics he was always an ardent Republican, contributing freely in time and money. He served the State as Quartermaster-General during both of Governor Foraker's administrations, and in 1887 declined a unani- mous nomination for Lieutenant-Governor. In 1895 he was elected Governor of Ohio by the largest plurality ever given, except in the darkest days of the Civil War, and was re-elected in 1897. He was an officer in the Episcopal Church, and was noted for his many chari- ties, especially for a donation of $10,000 to the Masonic Home, which procured its location at Springfield. He was an enthusiastic Grand Army man, and a Thirty-third degree Mason.
GEORGE KILBON NASH 1900-1904
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G EORGE KILBON NASH was born in Medina County, Ohio, August 14, 1842, and spent his early years on a farm. His par- ents were of sturdy New England stock. He entered Oberlin College in 1862, but in his sophomore year left to enlist as a private in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Infantry. - After the war he went to Columbus and taught school and studied law, until his admission to the bar in 1867. He was Prosecuting Attorney of Franklin County from 1871 to 1875, and Attorney-General of the State from 1880 to 1883, when he was appointed upon the Supreme Court Commission (an adjunct to the Supreme Court, and with similar jurisdiction), created by a constitutional amendment. Judge Nash was several times Chairman of the Republican State Committee, and always active in State and National politics. He was elected Governor of Ohio in 1899, and re-elected in 1901. Governor Nash had two of the most laborious administrations in the history of the State. By a decision of the Supreme Court, the entire municipal system had to be re-organized. The Governor, after much study and toil, formulated a plan, which was enacted by the General Assembly on October 22, 1902, at an extra- ordinary session, called by him for that purpose.
MYRON T. HERRICK 1904-1906
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M YRON T. HERRICK was born at Huntington, Lorain County, Ohio, on the 9th of October, 1854; the son of Timothy R, and Mary L. Herrick. His father came from a Massachusetts family of Colonial origin. His grandfather, Timothy Herrick, was one of the pioneers of Lorain County, Ohio, and was a soldier in the second war with England. Timothy R. Herrick, Governor Herrick's father, was born in Watertown, N. Y., in 1828. Governor Herrick was educated in the District School at Huntington; the Union Schools at Wellington, Ohio, and later on attended college at Oberlin, and at the Ohio Wes- leyan University, at Delaware, Ohio. In 1899, the emeritus degree was conferred upon him by the Ohio Wesleyan University. Governor Herrick came to Cleveland in the year 1875. He entered the law office of J. F. and G. E. Herrick, and was admitted to the bar in 1878. Mr. Herrick was a successful lawyer, and latterly became well-known as a business man and financier of ability. He is to-day recognized as one of the leading and most successful bankers in the country. He is at present the Chairman of the Executive Council of the American Bankers Association. In addition to his many financial interests, Governor Herrick is interested in various manufacturing, industrial and building enterprises in Cleveland, and the city has in many ways profited by the energy and public spirit which he has displayed. Gov- ernor Herrick's first vote was cast for President Rutherford B. Hayes, and he has ever since remained a Republican. He was a member of the Cleveland City Council in 1885, and accepted a re-election at the close of his first term of office. He has always taken an active interest in political issues, local and national. He was a delegate to the National Convention of 1888, 1892, 1896 and 1904, and elector-at-large for Ohio in 1900. He is at present a member of the Republican National Com- mittee, and of its Advisory Committee. Under President McKinley,
he was offered the United States Treasurership, and later the United States Ambassadorship to Rome, but both of these were declined. He was also offered the Ambassadorship to Rome by President Roosevelt, but again he declined. In 1893 he was a member of the Electoral College, and served as Chairman of the preliminary session when Mc- Kinley was nominated for Governor of Ohio. He was appointed by Governor Mckinley as a member of his special staff. In 1886 he was elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Society for Savings; and in 1894, upon the death of the President, Samuel H. Mather, he suc- ceeded him to the office of President, which he still occupies. He be- came a candidate in 1903, for the office of Governor of the State of Ohio, and received the marked honor of being selected as the unani- mous choice of the convention-the second instance of the kind in the history of the State; William McKinley being the other candidate for Governor, to receive this recognition-and he was elected Governor of the State by a majority greater than that ever given a candidate for that office in Ohio.
JOHN M. PATTISON 1906-1908
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JOHN M. PATTISON was born at Boston, Clermont County, Ohio, .
June 13, 1849. His father, William Pattison, was a farmer of Buckeye birth, but his grandfather came from Kentucky, and his great. grandfather from Pennsylvania ;; his mother was Mary Duckwall. Pattison. As a boy, Governor Pattison worked upon the farm and served as a. clerk in his father's country store. The parental. roof being but a few miles from the boyhood home of. General Grant, the - Civil War caused more than ordinary excitement, and at sixteen years of age young Pattison enlisted in' Company I of the 153d Ohio Volunteers, serving his country until honorably discharged. Entering Ohio . Wesleyan University at. Delaware, he worked his way through by teaching and laboring in the harvest fields .. At Delaware, both. Vice-President Fairbanks and Senator Foraker were his college-mates. Being graduated in 1869, Mr. Pattison's first. work was in the life . insurance business at Bloomington, Ill., representing the Union Central : of Cincinnati. In the meantime studying law, in 1872 he. removed. to Cincinnati and was admitted to the bar. For nine years he prac- tised law, his partner being Judge Alfred Yaple .. In 1881 Mr. Pattison was elected Vice-President and General Manager of the Union Central Life Insurance Co., and ten years later succeeded to its Presidency, a position he still retains. He was a member of the Ohio Senate and House of Representatives, and' from 1890 to 1892. served in: the National House of Representatives .. Governor Pattison is a Mason: and a member of the . Methodist. Episcopal Church, being one of the Board of Trustees of his Alma Mater, the Ohio Wesleyan University .. His home is- at Milford, Clermont County, Ohio, near Cincinnati, where he has resided for more than twenty-five years .. He was elected: Governor of Ohio, November 7, 1905, on the Democratic. ticket, his; inauguration occurring January 8, 1906 ..
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