Description: Five Ohio Governors gathered for the inauguration of C. William O'Neill in 1957. Pictured from left to right, the governors are Myers Cooper, John Bricker, Thomas Herbert, John W. Brown and C. William O'Neill. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03589
Subjects: Inaugurations--Governors--Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Governors portrait of Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) that hangs in the Ohio Statehouse. Hayes served serve three, two-year terms as Governor of Ohio from 1868-1872 and 1875-1876. The Republican Party had nominated him for governor of Ohio in 1867, in part because of his position on Reconstruction. The opposition candidate was Democrat Allen G. Thurman. The key issue of the campaign was whether African Americans should be given the right to vote. Supporting African-American suffrage, Hayes was successful in his campaign for governor. He also won reelection against George H. Pendleton in 1869. During his two terms as governor, Hayes supported Ohio's ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He did not finish his third term because he was elected President in 1876. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV105_1_21
Subjects: Ohio--Governors--Portraits; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: President Dwight D. Eisenhower invited Ohio Governor Michael DiSalle and other state governors attending a national conference of governors to visit his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in July 1962. DiSalle is pictured along with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, California Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown and President Eisenhower. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03592
Subjects: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969; DiSalle, Michael V. (Michael Vincent), 1908-1981; Ohio--Politics and government; Governors--Ohio
Places: Gettysburg (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Governors portrait of Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr.(1765-1824) that hangs in the Ohio Statehouse. He was elected United States Senator from Ohio in 1808 to fill a vacant seat. In 1810 he was elected the fourth governor of Ohio. Meigs served two, two-year terms as governor and left office in 1814. As governor, Meigs played a major role in the War of 1812. In 1812, he recruited more than one thousand men to attack the British in Canada as well as the villages of Indians loyal to England. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV105_1_3
Subjects: Ohio--Governors--Portraits; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Located at 358 North Parkway in Columbus, the Governor's Mansion has been home to nine of Ohio's governors. The first governor to move into the residence in 1955 was the Jeffery family. Currently Ted Strickland and his wife Francis reside in the home. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F04B_021_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Ohio Government; Governors; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Governors portrait of Othniel Looker (1757-1845) that hangs in the Ohio Statehouse. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives (1807-1809) and in the Ohio Senate (1810-1812, 1813-1817). He became acting governor when Governor Return J. Meigs, Jr., resigned to become Postmaster General of the United States. Looker served as Ohio's fifth governor from March 25 to December 8, 1814. Othniel Looker was the only governor of Ohio who actually fought in the American Revolution. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV105_1_4
Subjects: Ohio--Governors--Portraits; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Thomas Worthington (1773-1827) governors portrait that hangs in the Ohio Statehouse. He served as one of the first United States Senators from Ohio from 1803-1807 and 1811-1814. From 1814-1818 Worthington served two, two-year terms as Governor of Ohio. As governor, Worthington advocated numerous social reforms, including the regulation of bars and taverns, state assistance to paupers, and prison reform. He also became one of the earliest advocates for a canal system and supported free public education in the state. Unfortunately for Worthington, the Ohio legislature refused to enact most of his proposals. However, by the mid to late 1820s, many of Worthington's ideas, such as canals and public education, had become realities in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV105_1_5
Subjects: Ohio--Governors--Portraits; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Governors portrait of Rutherford B. Hayes that hangs in the Ohio Statehouse. Hayes served serve three, two year terms as Governor of Ohio from 1868-1872 and 1875-1876. He did not finish his third term because he was elected President in 1876. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04250
Subjects: Ohio--Governors--Portraits; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a portrait of governor Thomas L. Young (1832-1888). He served as governor of Ohio from 1877-1878. In July 1877, a national railroad strike spread to the state of Ohio. Some state governors appealed to the federal government for military support. Young addressed the strike in Ohio by using the state militia. After a few weeks, the strike was settled, and the militia troops returned home. Young restored order in Ohio, but he was unable to address many of the issues that had caused the strike. After leaving the governorship, Young was elected to the United States House of Representatives for two terms and served from 1879 to 1883. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: R_452_Young
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Ohio--Governors--Portraits
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Governors portrait of Robert Lucas (1781-1853) that hangs in the Ohio Statehouse. He served as Ohio's 12th governor from 1832 to 1836. During his term in office, Lucas took part in the controversy surrounding the border with Michigan. The border between the two states was in dispute and Toledo's status lay in the balance. In 1838, President Martin Van Buren named Lucas the governor of the new Iowa Territory. He held this position until 1841. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV105_1_10
Subjects: Ohio--Governors--Portraits; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Governors portrait of Wilson Shannon (1803-1877) that hangs in the Ohio Statehouse. He served as the 13th and 15th Governor of Ohio, from 1838-1840 and 1842-1844. He was elected Governor of Ohio in 1838 after receiving the Democratic Party nomination. The following election he lost to Thomas Corwin, but was reelected in 1842. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV105_1_11
Subjects: Ohio--Governors--Portraits; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reuben Wood (1792[3?]-1864) served as governor of Ohio from 1850 to 1853. In 1850, he ran for governor on the Democratic ticket, ultimately defeating Whig Party candidate William Johnston and Free Soil candidate Edward Smith. By the time that Wood took office, the Ohio Constitutional Convention of 1850 was in session. When the Constitution of 1851 went into effect, it stated that governors would be elected on odd years. Wood's first term of office was limited to only one year, but he then was reelected to a second term in 1851. In 1853, Wood resigned from the governorship when he became American Consul to Chile. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV105_1_14
Subjects: Ohio--Governors--Portraits; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)