HISTORY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY.



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STATE OFFICERS.

GOVERNORS.

ARTHUR ST. CLAIR, Governor under the territorial government, was appointed in 1788, and continued until the adoption of the State Constitution.

Edward Tiffin, elected and sworn into office under the State Constitution, March 3d, 1803. Thomas Kirker,* acting Governor part of 1808.
Samuel Huntington, elected and sworn in, 1808.
Return J. Meigs, elected and sworn in, 1808.
Othniel Looker,* acting Governor part of 1814.
Thomas Worthington, elected in 1814.
Ethan Allen Brown, elected in 1818.
Allen Trimble,* acting Governor part of 1822.
Jeremiah Morrow,
Allen Trimble,
Duncan McArthur
Robert Lucas
Joseph Vance,
Wilson Shannon,
Thomas Corwin,
Wilson Shannon,
elected in
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1826.
1830.
1832.
1836.
1838.
1840.
1842.
Thomas W. Bartley,* acting Governor part of 1844.

* Those marked with a star were Speakers of the Senate, who were by the Constitution to fill vacancies, and who served as Governors for short periods only.



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Mordecai Bartley,
William Bebb,
Seabury Ford,
Reuben Wood,
elected in
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1846.
1848.
1850.
Reuben Wood, elected under the new Constitution, Oct. 1851, term commenced January, 1852.
William Medill, elected October, 1853, term commenced January, 1854.
Salmon P. Chase, elected October, 1855, term commenced January, 1856.
Salmon P. Chase, elected October, 1857, term commenced January, 1858.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS, UNDER THE NEW CONSTITUTION.
William Medill,
James Myers,
Thomas Ford,
Martin Welker,
elected
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October,
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1851,
1853,
1855,
1856
term commenced
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Jan.
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1852.
1854.
1856.
1858.
SECRETARIES OF STATE.
William Creighton, jr.,
Jeremiah McLene,
Moses H. Kirby,
Benjamin Hinkson,
Carter B. Harlan,
elected
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1803.
1808.
1831.
1834.
1837.
William Trevitt, by appointment, part of 1840.
John Sloan, elected in 1840.
Samuel Galloway, elected in 1843.
Henry W. King, elected in 1849.
William Trevitt,
James H. Baker,
Addison P. Russell,
elected Oct
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1851,
1855,
1857,
term commenced
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Jan.
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1856.
1858.
AUDITORS OF STATE.
Thomas Gibson,
Benjamin Hough,
elected
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1803.
1808.

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Ralph Osborn,
John A. Bryan,
John Brough,
John Woods,
elected
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and commissioned
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1815.
1833.
1839.
1845.
William D. Morgan, elected Oct. 1851, term commenced Jan. 1852.
Francis M. Wright, elected Oct 1855, term commenced Jan. 1856.
TREASURER OF STATE*
Wm. McFarland,
Hiram M. Curry,
Samuel Sullivan,
Henry Brown,
Joseph Whitehill,
Albert A. Bliss,
elected
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1803.
1817.
1820.
1823.
1835.
1847.
John G. Breslin, elected Oct. 1851, term commenced Jan. 1852.
William H. Gibson, elected Oct. 1855, term commenced Jan 1856.
A. P. Stone, by appointment part of 1857.
A. P. Stone, elected Oct. 1857, term commenced January, 1858.
STATE LIBRARIANS.
John L. Harper,
John McElvain,
David S. Brodrick,
Zachariah Mills,
Thomas Kennedy,
John Greiner,
Elijah Hayward
James W. Taylor,
Wm. T. Coggeshall,
from
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1818,
1820,
1824,
1842,
1845,
1851,
1854,
1856.
to
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1820.
1824.
1842.
1845.
1851.
1854.
1856.

* John Armstrong was Treasurer under the territorial government from 1792, until the adoption of the State Constitution in 1803.

The state Library was established in 1817, and was commenced with about 500 volumes. Now it contains about 18,000.

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