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James Kilbourne (October 19, 1770 – April 9, 1850) was an American surveyor, War of 1812 veteran, politician from Ohio, and Episcopalian clergyman. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1813 to 1817.
The Grant Boyhood Home is a historic house museum at 219 East Grant Avenue in Georgetown, Ohio.Built in 1823, it was where United States President and American Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant (1822–85) lived from 1823 until 1839, [3] when he left for the United States Military Academy at West Point.
From 1823 to 1842, Swan served as president of the Franklin Bank of Columbus. In 1845, the General Assembly appointed him to the Board of Control of the Bank of Ohio. [1] He was appointed the first president of the State Bank of Ohio and held that position until 1854. [3] Swan married Amelia Aldrich in Hillsboro, New Hampshire in 1819. They had ...
Twenty-one states have the distinction of being the birthplace of a president. One president's birth state is in dispute; North and South Carolina (British colonies at the time) both lay claim to Andrew Jackson, who was born in 1767 in the Waxhaw region along their common border. Jackson himself considered South Carolina his birth state.
In the time since the Revolutionary War, Ohio has had ten misses (eight Democratic winners, one Democratic-Republican winner and one Whig winner) in the presidential election (John Quincy Adams in 1824, Martin Van Buren in 1836, James Polk in 1844, Zachary Taylor in 1848, James Buchanan in 1856, Grover Cleveland in 1884 and 1892, Franklin D ...
The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President (Ohio University Press, 2016) Lamis, Alexander, and Brian Usher. Ohio Politics (2007) 544pp. Maizlish, Stephen E. The Triumph of Sectionalism: The Transformation of Ohio Politics, 1844–1856 (1983) Miller, Richard F. States at War, Volume 5: A Reference Guide for Ohio in the Civil War (2015).
Grant was born in Ohio and graduated from the ... In 1823, the family moved to Georgetown, Ohio, ... President Johnson's Reconstruction policy included a speedy ...
In January 1823, a meeting of Ohio legislators approved resolutions naming Clay. In early 1823, the legislatures of Massachusetts and Maine stated a preference for Adams but did not make a formal nomination, as they wished to ensure party unity nationwide.