Moses Henry Dodge was an American politician and military officer who was Democratic member to the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate,Territorial Governor of Wisconsin and a veteran of the Black Hawk War. His son,Augustus C. Dodge,served as a U.S. Senator from Iowa;the two were the first and so far the only father-son pair to serve concurrently in the Senate,which they did from 1848 to 1855.
Walter Quintin Gresham was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the Seventh Circuit and previously was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Indiana. He served as Postmaster General of the United States and United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Chester A. Arthur and as United States Secretary of State under President Grover Cleveland.
Jesse Burgess Thomas was an American lawyer,judge and politician who served as a delegate from the Indiana Territory to the tenth Congress and later served as president of the Constitutional Convention which led to Illinois being admitted to the Union. He became one of Illinois' first two Senators,and is best known as the author of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. After his retirement from the U.S. Senate in 1829 he lived the rest of his life in Ohio.
Henry Smith Lane was a United States representative,Senator,and the 13th Governor of Indiana;he was by design the shortest-serving Governor of Indiana,having made plans to resign the office should his party take control of the Indiana General Assembly and elect him to the United States Senate. He held that office for only two days,and was known for his opposition to slavery. A Whig until the party collapsed,he supported compromise with the south. He became an early leader in the Republican Party starting in 1856 serving as the president of the first party convention,delivering its keynote address,and was influential in the nomination of Abraham Lincoln. With the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,he became a full-fledged abolitionist,and in the Senate he was a pro-Union advocate and a strong supporter of the war effort to end the rebellion.
Sanford Wesley Ransdell was an early American pioneer and soldier in the Battle of Tippecanoe. Ransdell was born in Orange County,Virginia,on September 11,1781. He was a descendant of Edward Ransdell,a signer of the historic Leedstown Resolutions written up in defiance of the Stamp Act.
William Christian was a military officer,planter and politician from the western part of the Colony of Virginia. He represented Fincastle County in the House of Burgesses and as relations with Britain soured,signed the Fincastle Resolutions. He later represented western Virginia in the Virginia Senate and founded Fort William,as well as helped negotiate the Treaty of Long Island of the Holston,which made peace between the Overmountain Men and Cherokees in 1777. He was killed in 1786 at the outset of the Northwest Indian War,leading an expedition against Native Americans near what is now Jeffersonville,Indiana.
William Whitley,was an American pioneer in what became Kentucky,in the colonial and early Federal period. Born in Virginia,he was the son of Scottish Presbyterian immigrants from northern Ireland,then the Ulster Plantation. He was important to the early settlement of the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky,where he moved with his family from Virginia. He served with the Kentucky militia during the Northwest Indian War.
Samuel Whiteside was an Illinois pioneer. A farmer and backwoodsman,Whiteside briefly served in the Illinois General Assembly after statehood and led the Illinois militia for decades,rising to the rank of general but also enlisting as an ordinary soldier when militia calls declined at the end of wars. Whiteside fought the British in the War of 1812 and Native Americans through the Blackhawk War.
Humphrey Marshall was an American lawyer,politician,and military official from Kentucky. During the Antebellum era,he served four terms in the United States House of Representatives,interrupted by a brief stint as ambassador to China. When the American Civil War broke out,he sided with the Confederacy,becoming a brigadier general in the CS Army and then a Confederate Congressman.
Thomas Satterwhite Noble was an American painter as well as the first head of the McMicken School of Design in Cincinnati,Ohio.
William John Brown was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
James McGowan Strode (1804–1857/1860) was a militia officer and politician from the U.S. state of Illinois. He served in the Illinois militia during the Winnebago War and the Black Hawk War. Strode,originally from Tennessee,lived much of his life in Galena,Illinois. In Galena,during the Black Hawk War he was given command of the 27th Regiment of the Illinois militia and oversaw the construction of a fort in that city. Strode was involved in combat during the war at the infamous Battle of Stillman's Run. In 1835 Strode was elected to represent much of the region of Illinois north of Peoria in the Illinois State Senate.
James W. Stephenson was an American militia officer and politician from the state of Illinois. He was born in Virginia but spent most of his youth in Edwardsville,Illinois. In 1825 he was indicted for the murder of a family acquaintance,but never went to trial. Upon the outbreak of the Black Hawk War in 1832,Stephenson raised a company and saw combat,suffering severe wounds at the Battle of Waddams Grove. After the war ended Stephenson entered public life,and served as a member of the Illinois State Senate in 1834. In December 1837 Stephenson was nominated as the Democratic candidate for Governor of Illinois. Within six months of his nomination,accusations of embezzlement were leveled against him,and he was forced to withdraw from the election. In August 1838,Stephenson died at home of tuberculosis.
Joseph Bartholomew was a general in the Indiana Militia and served in numerous military conflicts. He also worked as a farmer,hunter,trapper,self-taught surveyor,and politician. Bartholomew County,Indiana and the Bartholomew Trail were named after him.
John Dement was an American politician and militia commander from the U.S. state of Illinois.
Benjamin Parke was an American lawyer,politician,militia officer,businessman,treaty negotiator in the Indiana Territory who also served as a United States federal judge in Indiana after it attained statehood in 1816. Parke was the Indiana Territory's attorney general (1804–1808);a representative to the territory's first general assembly (1805);its first territorial delegate to the United States House of Representatives (1805–1808);one of the five Knox County delegates to the Indiana constitutional convention of 1816;and a territorial court judge (1808–1816). After Indiana attained statehood,Parke served as the first United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Indiana (1817–1835).
Williamson Dunn was an American judge and politician in the early history of Indiana. He served as the third Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives. Dunn is credited with having founded the town of Hanover,Indiana,as well as having contributed funds towards the founding of Hanover College.
William McMurtry was the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Thomas Spottswood Hinde was an American newspaper editor,opponent of slavery,author,historian,real estate investor,Methodist minister and a founder of the city of Mount Carmel,Illinois. Members of the Hinde family were prominent in Virginia,Kentucky,Ohio,and Illinois. His sons Charles T. Hinde became a shipping magnate and Edmund C. Hinde an adventurer. He was the father-in-law of judge Charles H. Constable.
Joseph Gillespie was an American politician from New York. Moving with his family to Illinois at a young age,Gillespie fought in the Black Hawk War before studying law at Transylvania University. Upon graduation,he was elected to a two-year term in the Illinois House of Representatives,where he once jumped out of a window with Abraham Lincoln to stop a quorum. He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1846,serving for twelve years. He was a founder of the Illinois Republican Party and served on the Illinois circuit courts for twelve years.
