Thomas Kirker 1808 State of the State Address   Save
Ohio Governors' State of the State Addresses
Description: Governor Thomas Kirker delivered an annual message to the General Assembly of Ohio on Dec. 6, 1808. These two pages are taken from the microfilm version of the 1808/1809 House of Representatives 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)