Jeremiah Morrow
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| United States Senator from Ohio |
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| In office March 4, 1813 – March 4, 1819 |
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| Preceded by | Alexander Campbell |
| Succeeded by | William A. Trimble |
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| Born | October 6, 1771 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania |
| Died | March 22, 1852 (aged 80) Lebanon, Ohio |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican |
Jeremiah Morrow (October 6, 1771 – March 22, 1852) was a Democratic-Republican Party politician from Ohio. He served as the ninth Governor of Ohio, and the last Democratic-Republican to do so.
Morrow was born near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to the descendants of Scots-Irish immigrants. He moved to the Northwest Territory in 1795. He lived at the mouth of the Little Miami River for a short time before moving to what is now Warren County.[1]
After serving in the Territorial House of Representatives and Territorial Senate, and as a Hamilton county delegate to the 1802 Constitutional Convention,[2] he was elected to the first State Senate a year later and served six months before becoming Ohio's first member of the United States House of Representatives. Morrow won four additional full terms. He ran for the U.S. Senate in 1812 and served a single term from 1813 to 1819, and did not seek re-election. Ohio Presidential elector in 1816 for James Monroe.[3] He won election to the governorship in 1822 and served for two two-year terms. He declined to serve a third term, instead returning to the Ohio House of Representatives and State Senate. Morrow was sent back to Washington again in 1841, and served two more years in the House, but refused to be renominated in 1842, believing himself too old.
He is the namesake of the highest bridge in Ohio, of Morrow County, and of Morrow, Ohio.
[edit] References
- ^ Ryan, Daniel J (1888). A History of Ohio with Biographical Sketches of her Governors and the Ordinance of 1787. Columbus, Ohio: A H Smythe. pp. 175–176. http://books.google.com/books?id=M6YTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA175.
- ^ "First Constitutional Convention, Convened November 1, 1802". Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications V: 131–132. 1896. http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=0005131.html&StartPage=80&EndPage=132&volume=5&newtitle=Volume%205%20Page%2080.
- ^ Taylor, William Alexander; Taylor, Aubrey Clarence (1899). Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 .... 1. State of Ohio. p. 102. http://books.google.com/books?id=ztegAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA102.
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- 1771 births
- 1852 deaths
- People from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- People from Warren County, Ohio
- Governors of Ohio
- Members of the Ohio House of Representatives
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
- Northwest Territory officials
- Ohio State Senators
- United States Senators from Ohio
- Ohio Democratic-Republicans
- Ohio Constitutional Convention (1802)
- Democratic-Republican Party United States Senators
- Northwest Territory House of Representatives
- United States presidential electors
