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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.
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.
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 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).
Monroe was the last U.S. president to wear a powdered wig tied in a queue, a tricorne hat and knee-breeches according to the style of the late 18th century. [177] [178] That earned him the nickname "The Last Cocked Hat". He was also the last president who was not photographed. [179]
Sherman at age 19. Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio on May 10 1823, to Charles Robert Sherman and his wife, Mary Hoyt Sherman, the eighth of their 11 children. [1] John Sherman's grandfather, Taylor Sherman, a Connecticut lawyer and judge, first visited Ohio in the early nineteenth century, gaining title to several parcels of land before returning to Connecticut. [2]