Description: Thomas Corwin (1794-1865) was born in Kentucky and was a life long politician. He served as the fifteenth governor of Ohio from 1840 to 1842. After his time as governor he served as a US Senator, and in this capacity he was known as a great orator, eloquently expressing his opposition to the Mexican War. He also served as a minister to Mexico and Secretary of the Treasury. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04108
Subjects: Mexican War, 1846-1848; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Other--Federal Government; Governors--Ohio
Places: Lebanon (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: First post office in Gallipolis, established in 1794, Gallia County, Ohio. The photograph was taken ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00345
Subjects: Gallipolis (Ohio); Other--Federal Government
Places: Gallipolis (Ohio); Gallia 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: Allen G. Thurman (1813-1895) was a Democratic Representative (1845-1847) from Ohio; justice of the Ohio State Supreme Court, 1852-56; U.S. Senator from Ohio, 1869-81; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1884; and candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1888. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03916
Subjects: Ohio. Supreme Court; United States. Congress. Senate; Lawyers--Ohio; Other--Federal Government
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio); Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Charles Foster (1828-1904) was governor of Ohio from 1880 to 1884. He also served as secretary of the treasury under President Benjamin Harrison (1891-93). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03921
Subjects: Ohio--Governors--Portraits; Other--Federal Government; Politicians; Portrait photography
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Henry Clay was born on April 12, 1777, in Hanover County, Virginia. By the age of twenty, Clay had established a law practice in Lexington, Kentucky. He served in the US House of Representatives and Senate throughout his life and even as the Speaker. Clay proposed the Missouri Compromise in 1820. While many Ohioans opposed Clay's compromise, Clay remained popular within the state. His political career is full of attempts to foster compromise with the North and South. Clay died from tuberculosis on June 29, 1852. This engraving of Clay was for the American Review, 1844. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04106
Subjects: Abolitionists; Other--Federal Government; Slavery; Politicians
Places: Lexington (Kentucky)
 

Description: A Zanesville, Ohio, native, Samuel S. Cox (1824-1889) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1857 to 1865. In 1853, Cox embarked upon a newspaper career, serving as the editor of the 'Ohio Statesman' in Columbus. Cox was an active member of the Democratic Party, and used his newspaper to further that party's influence in the state. This etching was taken from "Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe, 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04110
Subjects: Other--Federal Government; Newspaper editors; Local government--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Civilian Conservation Corps built this highway, south of Jelloway in Knox County. It was funded by the Works Progress Administration in Ohio ca. 1930-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00447
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Other--Federal Government
Places: Jelloway (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)
 

Description: Men and women decorating at Weller Pottery, Zanesville, Ohio, ca. 1910-1919. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00088
Subjects: Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Other--Federal Government
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Charles Foster (1828-1904) was governor of Ohio from 1880 to 1884. Foster chose to run as the Republican candidate for Ohio governor in 1879, and campaigned on the issue of sound money, which would require the government to back paper money with gold. Foster won the election and focused his administration on reforming the state government so that it was more efficient. In addition, Foster supported the temperance movement by favoring higher liquor taxes. Ultimately, his support of this tax, known as the Pond Law, contributed to his defeat in the election of 1883. He later went on to serve as Secretary of the Treasury under President Benjamin Harrison from 1891 through 1893. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02808
Subjects: Governors--Ohio; Other--Federal Government; Republican Party; Temperance; Portrait photography
 

Description: This illustration is of Steubenville, Ohio, native Edwin M. Stanton. This portrait shows Stanton in a formal suit with a full beard, and wearing eyeglasses. Stanton served as Secretary of War from 1862-1868, and was notably part of President Abraham Lincoln's cabinet during the US Civil War. The original illustration appeared in Henry Howe's "Historical Collections of Ohio," 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04297
Subjects: Lawyers; Other--Federal Government; Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: This engraved portrait is of Ohio Congressman Clement Laird Vallandigham, ca. 1860s. Vallandigham is well-known for being the leader of the Ohio Democratic Party and for opposing the US Civil War. The original illustration is from Henry Howe's "Historical Collection of Ohio," 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04307
Subjects: Other--Federal Government; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States. Congress. House--1850-1860; Vallandigham, Clement L. (Clement Laird), 1820-1871