Description: This is a photographic print of William Creighton (1778-1851) of Chillicothe, Ohio. Creighton was an early proponent of Ohio statehood. He served as Ohio's first Secretary of State from 1803 to 1808 and was a member of the Ohio and United States Houses of Representatives. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02979
Subjects: Creighton, William, 1778-1851; Local government--Ohio; Politicians; Ohio--Politics and government; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Henry George was a journalist, writer, and political economist in the United States in the nineteenth century. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 2, 1839. In 1879, George published his most famous work, "Progress and Poverty." In this book, George investigated the reasons for economic downturns and poverty and came to advocate the "single tax," where those who owned land would pay a fee for the privilege. This fee would take the place of taxes owed by workers and pay for the cost of government. This idea was seen favorable by notable Ohioans Tom L. Johnson, reform mayor of Cleveland, and Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones, mayor of Toledo. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04065
Subjects: Ohio--Politics and government; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Ohio Economy; Portrait photography
Places: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Scene of the first state buildings in Columbus, Ohio. The first Statehouse, located on the corner of High and State Streets, can be seen on the right with its tall third-story central balcony. The State Offices building is located in the middle (note the signs reading "Secretary," "Treasurer," and "Auditor"). The image is from a wood engraving done by William Riches, and was taken from "Columbus, Ohio: Its History, Resources, and Progress," by Jacob Henry Studer, ca. 1830. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03949
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Columbus (Ohio)--Politics and government; Historic buildings--Ohio--Columbus
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1884-1885, this is a composite of portraits of members of the 66th House Finance Committee of the Ohio General Assembly. Listed from left to right, the men shown here are James Turner (Montgomery County), John H. Littler (Clark County) (top row), Allen O. Myers (Franklin County), Henry Bohl (Washington County), S.W. Brown (Warren County) (middle row), Geo. H. Ford (Geauga and Lake Counties), John D. Thompson (Knox County), A.G. Harbaugh (Cuyahoga County), and Geo. W. Crites (Tuscarawas County) (bottom row). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS2597
Subjects: Politicians; Ohio--Politics and government; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Portraits
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This broadside, created in 1859 by the Democratic Party of Ohio, was directed to defeat William H. Gibson, the Radical Republican candidate for Congress, by reminding the public of his conviction in Ohio for embezzlement of state bonds. Gibson had participated in a cover-up of a deficiency in the Ohio Treasury, left by his predecessor, John G. Breslin. He was forced to resign as Ohio State Treasurer in 1857, and returned to Tiffin to start a law office. Gibson was Brigadier General of the Union Army’s 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War, and is remembered as a powerful orator and patriotic leader for his service in the war. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04279
Subjects: Political parties; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Ohio--Politics and government--1787-1865
Places: Tiffin (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)
 

Description: This title page reads "Journal of the Convention, of the Territory of the United States North-west of the Ohio, Begun and Held at Chillicothe, on Monday the First Day of November, A. D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Two, and of the Independence of the United States the Twenty-Seventh." In November 1802, thirty-five delegates of the Ohio Constitutional Convention convened to draft an Ohio state constitution. In order for Ohio to become a state, representatives of the territory had to submit a constitution to the United States Congress for approval. This was the final requirement under the Northwest Ordinance that Ohio had to meet before becoming a state. Twenty six of the delegates favored the platform of the Democratic-Republican Party. Among these men was Edward Tiffin, the president of the convention. Democratic-Republicans favored a small government with limited powers, in which the legislative branch should hold the few powers that the government actually possessed. Seven delegates to the convention were Federalists. Federalists believed in a much stronger government. The remaining two delegates were independents. Since the Democratic-Republicans controlled the convention, Ohio's first state constitution established a relatively weak government with the legislative branch holding most of the power. The convention approved the Constitution on November 29, 1802, and adjourned, and Ohio's Constitution of 1803 remained in effect until the Ohio Constitutional Convention of 1851 adopted a new one. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06905
Subjects: Northwest Territory--Politics and government; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Constitutional conventions; History of the State of Ohio
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Arthur St. Clair (1734-1818). St. Clair served as governor of the Northwest Territory from 1788 to 1802. As Ohio moved towards statehood, St. Clair actively opposed Ohio's admittance to the United States. He hoped that what is now Ohio would not become a single state but rather two states. Thomas Worthington, Nathaniel Massie, Michael Baldwin, and several others urged President Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic-Republican Party, to make Ohio a state. Jefferson and the Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Congress responded by issuing the Enabling Act of 1802. This act called on the people of Ohio to form a constitutional convention and to fulfill the other requirements of the Northwest Ordinance to become a state. St. Clair denounced the Enabling Act. Jefferson responded by removing St. Clair as governor. Ohio became the seventeenth state of the United States on February 19, 1803. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4029_001
Subjects: Governors; Northwest Territory--Politics and government; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818;
Places: Northwest Territory; Ohio
 

Description: Campaign advertisement for Frank Lausche's re-election as governor, 1951. The poster emphasizes the numerous black appointments made under Lauscheduring his first administration as governor of Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS_0748
Subjects: Ohio Government; Presidents and Politics; Governors; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of a print depicting Arthur St. Clair (1736-1818), who served as the territorial governor of the Northwest Territory from 1788 to 1802. As Ohio moved towards statehood, St. Clair actively opposed Ohio's admittance to the United States. He hoped that what is now Ohio would not become a single state but rather two states. If this occurred, St. Clair believed that the Federalists would outnumber the Democratic-Republicans, which would allow the Federalists to continue to control the government of the new states. Because of this opposition, President Thomas Jefferson eventually removed St. Clair as governor prior to Ohio's admission to the Union in 1803. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06998
Subjects: Northwest Territory--Politics and government; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Ohio Governor Andrew Harris in front of the Wyandot County Courthouse in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, September 30, 1908. Andrew Lintner Harris (1835-1915), nicknamed "The Farmer-Statesman," was one of the heroes of the Battle of Gettysburg, and served as the 44th Governor of Ohio between the years of 1906 and 1909. Harris was born in Milford Township, Ohio, and was educated in the local schools. He graduated from Miami University in 1860 and enlisted as a private in the Union Army. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07790
Subjects: Governors--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Ohio--Politics and government;
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Stanley Matthews (1824-1889) was justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1881 to 1889. A graduate of Kenyon College, Matthews was a common pleas judge of Hamilton county in 1850-1853, state senator in 1856-1858, and U.S. district attorney for the southern district of Ohio in 1858-1861. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03912
Subjects: Judges--Ohio; Other--Federal Government; Ohio--Politics and government
Places: Washington (D.C.)
 

Description: Photograph of the exterior of the Old Post Office and U.S. Federal Courthouse at 100 South Third Street, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1910-1919. It was built in 1887 and also known as the Old, Old Post Office. The building was added to the list National Register of Historic Places in 1973. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02973
Subjects: Courts--Ohio--Franklin County; Columbus (Ohio)--Politics and government; Historic buildings--Ohio--Columbus
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)