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��HISTORY or OHIO.
��LIST OF TERRITORIAL AND STATE GOVERNORS,
Fro7n the organization of the first civil government in the Northwest Territory (1788 to 1802), 0/ wAicA the State of
Ohio was apart, until the year 1880.
��(a) Arthur St. Clair
- Charles Willing Byrd
(6) Edward Tiffin
(c) fThomas Kirkei-
Samuel Hunt ingtoa
(d) Return Jonathan Meigs.
■j-Ot hniel Looker
Thomas Worthington
(e) Ethan Allen Brown
fAllen Trimble
J eremiah Morrow
Allen Trimble
Duncan McArthur
Robert Lucas
Joseph Vance
Wilson Shannon
Thomas Corwin
(/■) Wilson Shannon
JThomas W. Bartley
Mordecai Bartley
William Bebb...'.
(^) Seabury Ford ,
(/t) Reuben Wood ,
(./)^ William Medill
Salmon P. Chase
William Dennison
David Tod....,
(k) John Brough ,
^Charles Anderson
Jacob D. Cox
Rutherford B. Hayes
Edward F. Noyes
William Allen
{I) Rutherford B. Hayes
(m) Thomas L. Young ,
Richard M. Bishop
Charles Foster ,
��COUNTY.
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Butler
Geauga
Cuyahoga
Fairfield
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Franklin ,
Mahoning —
Cuyahoga ,
Montgomery.
Trumbull
Hamilton
Hamilton
Ross
Sandusky.. ...
Hamilton
Hamilton
Sandusky
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��Term Ended.
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��(a) Arthur St. Clair, of Pennsylvania, was Governor of the North- west Territory, of which Ohio was a part,from July 13, 1788, when the first civil government was established in the Territory, until about the close of the year 1802, when he was removed by the President.
♦Secretary of the Territory, and was acting Governor of the Territory after the removal of Gov. St. Clair.
(b) Resigned March .S, 1807, to accept the office of U. S. Senator.
(c) Return .Jonathan Meigs was elected Governor on the second Tuesday of October, 1807, over Nathaniel Massie, who contested the election of Meigs, on the gmund that "he had not been a resident of this State for fovir years next preceding the election, as required by the Constitution,"' and the General Assembly, in joint convention, declared tiiat he was not eligible. The office was not given to Massie, nor does it appear, from the records that he claimed it, but Thomas Kirker, acting Governor, continued to discharge the duties of the office until December 12, 1808, when Samuel Huntington was inaugurated, he having been elected on the second Tuesday of October in that year
(d) Resigned March 25, 1814, to accept the office of Postmaster- General of the United States.
��(«) Resigned January 4, 1822. to accept the office of United States Senator.
(/) Resigned April 13, 1844, to accept the office of Minister to Mexico.
(gi The result of the election in 1848 was not finally determined in joint convention of the two houses of the General Assembly until January 19,1849, and the inauguration did not take place until tlic 22d of that month.
(h) Resigned July 15, 1853 to accept the office of Consul to Val- paraiso.
0) Elected in October, 1853, for the regular term, to commence on the Second Monday of January, 1854.
(it) Died August 29, 1865.
■j- Acting Governor.
X Acting Governor, vice Wilson Shannon, resigned.
1[ Acting Governor, vice Reuben Wood, resigned.
? Acting Governor, vice John Brough, deceased.
(I) Resigned March 2, 1877, to accept the office of President of the United States.
(m) Vice Rutherford B. Hayes, resigned.
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