From a painting in the Capitol at Columbus. Born at Carlisle, England, June 19, 1766; studied medicine in Philadelphia and came to Charlestown, Virginia, in 1794; located at Chillicothe, in 1798; served as member of the House of Representatives in the first and second Territorial Legislatures; was President of the first Constitutional Convention, 1802; elected first Governor of Ohio, 1803, reelected in 1805; elected United States Senator, 1807; resigned March, 1809; Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, 1809-1810; appointed first Commissioner of the Land Office, 1812; appointed Surveyor General of the West, 1814; died at Chillicothe, August 9, 1829. 1 |