Clement Laird Vallandigham was an American politician and leader of the Copperhead faction of anti-war Democrats during the American Civil War. He served two terms for Ohio's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. In 1863,he was convicted by an Army court martial for publicly expressing opposition to the war and exiled to the Confederate States of America. He ran for governor of Ohio in 1863 from exile in Canada,but was defeated. Vallandigham died in 1871 in Lebanon,Ohio,after accidentally shooting himself in the abdomen with a pistol,while representing a defendant in a murder case for killing a man in a barroom brawl in Hamilton.
Asa Smith Bushnell I was an American Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 40th governor of Ohio. Prior to becoming governor,he served as the president of the Warder,Bushnell and Glessner Company,which became one of four companies that merged to form International Harvester. Other roles in business included serving as president of the Springfield Gas Company and the First National Bank of Springfield.
Charles William Frederick Dick was a Republican politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.
James Randolph Hubbell was an American politician from Ohio,serving as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Andrew Graham McBurney was an American Republican politician who served as the eighth lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1866 to 1868.
James W. Faulkner was an American political journalist from Cincinnati,Ohio,whose career spanned local politics in Cincinnati and state politics in Ohio' his writings covered the presidential campaigns of both parties from 1892 through 1920. He started his newspaper career with The Cincinnati Times-Star,and in 1887 he joined the Cincinnati Enquirer. In 1890 at the age of 27 he was assigned to Columbus,Ohio to report on the Ohio General Assembly and state politics. He observed many lobbyists had invaded the chambers of the legislature by posing as newspapermen,causing special interest group influence on the floor of the House and Senate. He formed the Ohio Legislative Correspondents Association,which required newsmen to submit credentials before gaining floor privileges,and served as its president for 24 years.
Ulysses Grant Denman was a Republican politician from the state of Ohio. He was Ohio Attorney General from 1908-1911.
Arlington G. Reynolds was a Republican politician in the U.S. state of Ohio who was Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives 1900–1901.
Charles Burleigh Galbreath was a writer,historian,educator,and librarian in Ohio. He was appointed as State Librarian at the State Library of Ohio from 1896–1911 and 1915-1918. He was the Secretary and Librarian at the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society from 1920-1934.
Edward King was an Ohio legislator and lawyer who was twice Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives,and was on the first faculty of the Cincinnati Law School.
Timothy Sylvester Hogan was a Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Ohio who served as Ohio Attorney General from 1911–1915.
Charles L. Swain was a Democratic politician from Cincinnati,Ohio,United States who was Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives,and an unsuccessful candidate for Ohio's 2nd congressional district.
Moses H. Kirby was a politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who first served in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1826,was the third Ohio Secretary of State,and was a State Senator as late as 1884,57 years after he first served in the Statehouse.
John C. Hutsinpiller was a Republican politician from Gallia County,Ohio,United States who served in the Ohio State Senate 1894 to 1898,and was President of the Senate 1896 to 1898.
David Lawrence Sleeper was a Republican politician in the U.S. state of Ohio who was Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives 1896-1898.
Nial R. Hysell was a politician from the U.S. State of Ohio who served as Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1890 to 1892.
Archelaus D. Marsh (1844–1904) was an American politician who served as Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives during 1884 and 1885.
Hal Howard Griswold was a politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. He was the Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1923 and 1924.
Harry C. Mason was a politician from Cleveland,Ohio,United States who served as Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives.
Charles John Howard was a legislator in both houses of the Ohio legislature around the turn of the nineteenth century. He was President of the Ohio Senate in 1915 and 1916.
