Seabury Ford
| Seabury Ford | |
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| 20th Ohio Governor | |
| In office January 22, 1849 – December 12, 1850 |
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| Preceded by | William Bebb |
| Succeeded by | Reuben Wood |
| Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the Geauga County district |
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| In office December 7, 1835 – December 5, 1841 Serving with four others |
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| Preceded by | Lewis Dille Lester Taylor |
| Succeeded by | John P. Converse |
| Member of the Ohio Senate from the Cuyahoga & Geauga counties district |
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| In office December 6, 1841 – December 3, 1843 |
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| Preceded by | Richard Lord |
| Succeeded by | Moses Kelley |
| In office December 1, 1845 – December 5, 1847 |
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| Preceded by | Moses Kelley |
| Succeeded by | Franklin T. Backus |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 15, 1801 Cheshire, Connecticut |
| Died | May 8, 1855 (aged 53) Burton, Ohio |
| Political party | Whig |
| Spouse(s) | Harriet E. Cook |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
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Seabury Ford (October 15, 1801– May 8, 1855) was a Whig politician from Ohio. He served as the 20th Governor of Ohio and the last Whig to do so.
Ford was born in Cheshire, Connecticut and moved to Burton, Ohio with his parents in 1804. He attended Yale University. While at Yale, he was elected by his classmates as class "bully", a term of honor for the physically strongest man in the class.[1] He graduated from Yale in 1825.[2][3] He returned to Ohio, and read law under the direction of his uncle, Judge Peter Hitchcock. He commenced practice of law in 1827.[2][3] Ford married Harriet E. Cook of Burton in 1828.[2]
He was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives from Geauga County, serving as speaker for one term, and then to the Ohio State Senate.[3]
After serving in the General Assembly, Ford was elected to the governorship in late 1848, by a margin of 311 votes out of nearly 300,000 cast. Ford served only a single term before returning home. His term was marred by fighting in a highly partisan Assembly that was divided over issues related to slavery and the Mexican-American War, as well as by a cholera epidemic that swept through Columbus. On the first Sunday after his retirement, he was stricken by paralysis, from which he never recovered.[2] He died at home in Burton in 1855.[2][3]
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- ^ Upton, Harriet Taylor (1910). Cutler, Harry Gardner. ed. History of the Western Reserve. 1. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company. p. 313. http://books.google.com/books?id=xEsbLFoBttYC&pg=PA313.
- ^ a b c d e The History of Champaign county, Ohio: .... Chicago: W H Beers. 1881. p. 167. http://books.google.com/books?id=pQzVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA167.
- ^ a b c d 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. 181-182. http://books.google.com/books?id=M6YTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA181.
