Columbus is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748,it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S.,the second-most populous city in the Midwest,and the third-most populous U.S. state capital. Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County;it also extends into Delaware and Fairfield counties. It is the core city of the Columbus metropolitan area,which encompasses ten counties in central Ohio. It had a population of 2.139 million in 2020,making it the largest metropolitan area entirely in Ohio and 32nd-largest metro area in the U.S.
The Ohio State University is a public land-grant research university in Columbus,Ohio,United States. A member of the University System of Ohio,it was founded in 1870. It is one of the largest universities by enrollment in the United States,with nearly 50,000 undergraduate students and nearly 15,000 graduate students. The university consists of sixteen colleges and offers over 400 degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Worthington is a city in Franklin County,Ohio,United States,and is a northern suburb of Columbus. The population in the 2020 Census was 14,786. The city was founded in 1803 by the Scioto Company led by James Kilbourne,who was later elected to the United States House of Representatives,and named in honor of Thomas Worthington,who later became governor of Ohio.
Leslie Herbert Wexner is an American billionaire businessman,the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Bath &Body Works,Inc..
John Richard Kasich Jr. is an American politician and author who was the 69th governor of Ohio from 2011 to 2019,a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 2001,and a Republican candidate for the presidential nomination in 2000 and 2016.
Thomas Worthington was an American politician who served as the sixth governor of Ohio.
Theodore Strickland is an American politician who served as the 68th governor of Ohio from 2007 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served in the United States House of Representatives,representing Ohio's 6th congressional district.
Ohio Stadium is an American football stadium in Columbus,Ohio,on the campus of Ohio State University. It primarily serves as the home venue of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team and is also the site for the university's Spring Commencement ceremonies each May. Common nicknames for the stadium include "The Horseshoe","The Shoe",and "The House That Harley Built".
Michael B. Coleman is an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as the 52nd mayor of Columbus,Ohio. He was the first African-American to serve as the mayor of Ohio's capital city.
Chalmers Pangburn Wylie was an American politician and lawyer from Ohio,who served in various public offices in that state before serving thirteen terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1993.
Gene Smith is a former American college administrator and former college football player and coach who was most recently senior vice president and Athletic Director for Ohio State University.
Jennifer Lee Brunner is an American attorney,politician and judge. She is currently an associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court,a position to which she was elected after serving as a judge on the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals. A member of the Democratic Party,Brunner also served one term as Ohio Secretary of State from 2007 to 2011 and unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 2010. Prior to being elected Secretary of State,Brunner worked in the Ohio Secretary of State's Office and served as a County Judge in Franklin County,Ohio.
The 1998 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented the Ohio State University in the 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head football coach was John Cooper. The Buckeyes played their home games in Ohio Stadium. The team finished the season with a win–loss record of 11–1,and a Big Ten Conference record of 7–1. They were co-champions of the Big Ten Conference with the Wisconsin Badgers and the Michigan Wolverines and played in one of the premiere Bowl Championship Series bowl games,the 1999 Sugar Bowl.
Kevin L. Boyce is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party who currently serves as President of the Franklin County Board of Commissioners. Formerly,he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 25th District from 2012 to 2016,a member of Columbus City Council,and was the 47th Ohio State Treasurer from 2009 to 2010.
Jamie Callender is an American lawyer and college professor who has served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives since 2019. He represents the 57th district which includes the Lake County communities of Concord Township,Kirtland,Kirtland Hills,LeRoy Township,Madison,Madison Township,North Perry,Perry,Perry Township,Waite Hill,Willoughby Hills,as well as most of both Mentor and Painesville Township. He currently is Chairman of Public Utilities and Finance,as well as serving on Civil Justice,Joint Education Oversight Committee,Rules and Reference Ohio House Committees.
The One Hundred Twenty-second Ohio General Assembly was the legislative body of the state of Ohio in 1997 and 1998. In this General Assembly,both the Ohio Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives were controlled by the Ohio Republican Party. In the Senate,there were 21 Republicans and 12 Democrats. In the House,there were 60 Republicans and 39 Democrats. It used redistricted legislative districts from the 1990 United States Census.
Chris Verich was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. His district consisted of a portion of Trumbull County,Ohio. He was appointed to replace his brother Michael,who had won a ninth term in office but who had resigned to take up a position on the Ohio State Employment Relations Board (SERB) before the term commenced in January 1999. Chris Verich was defeated in the 2000 Democratic Primary by Daniel Sferra,who won at that year's election and succeeded him in January 2001.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Columbus,Ohio,United States.
On November 28,2016,a terrorist vehicle-ramming and stabbing attack occurred at 9:52 a.m. EST at Ohio State University's Watts Hall in Columbus,Ohio. The attacker,Somali refugee Abdul Razak Ali Artan,was shot and killed by the first responding OSU police officer,and 13 people were hospitalized for injuries.
The 2010 Ohio Attorney General election was held on November 2,2010,concurrently with other statewide offices including a Class 1 Senate election as well as the Governor election. Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Richard Cordray who was elected in a 2008 special election ran for a full 4-year term but was defeated by Republican challenger and former 2-term United States senator Mike DeWine. Being decided by 1.2%,this was the closest statewide election in Ohio. Cordray and DeWine faced off again in Ohio's 2018 Governor election;DeWine won that election by 3.7 percentage points.
