Thomas Kirker 1807 State of the State Address   Save
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Description: Governor Thomas Kirker delivered an annual message to the General Assembly of Ohio on Dec. 5, 1807. These three pages are excerpted from the 1807/1808 Senate Journal. The Democratic-Republican Kirker served as Ohio’s second governor from Edward Tiffin’s resignation in 1807 until the term ended in 1808. Upon hearing of a threatened Indian uprising in 1807, Kirker called up the militia and sent authorities to frontier towns to investigate the danger. However, they found no hostilities and Kirker called back the Ohio troops. Though he was not reelected, Kirker served many terms in the Ohio State Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives. View on Ohio Memory.
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Subjects: Presidents and Politics; Ohio Government; Governors
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio); Liberty Township (Ohio); Adams County (Ohio)