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Ohio counties in 1802. The Enabling Act of 1802 was passed on April 30, 1802, by the Seventh Congress of the United States. This act authorized the residents of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territory to form the state of Ohio and join the U.S. on an equal footing with the other states. In doing so it also established the precedent and ...
The Ohio territory's population grew steadily in the 1790s and early 19th century. Congress passed an enabling bill to establish a new state, which President Thomas Jefferson signed into law on April 30, 1802. A state constitutional convention was held in November 1802 in Chillicothe, Ohio, and
Ohio Constitutional Convention (1912) was Ohio's 4th constitutional convention. Ohio voters voted 693,263 to 67,718 on November 8, 1910, to hold a state constitutional convention. [ 1 ] The convention in Columbus [ 2 ] convened Jan 9, 1912 and adjourned June 7, 1912.
The act required the people of Ohio to elect a delegate for each 1,200 people to attend a constitutional convention. These delegates would meet in Chillicothe on November 1, 1802, and would decide by majority vote whether or not to form a constitution and state government, and, if so, either provide for the election of representatives for a ...
The assumed dividing line turned out to be incorrect, as a fur trapper told delegates of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802 that it didn't include the river. In 1803, delegates stipulated ...
After serving in the Territorial House of Representatives and Territorial Senate, and as a Hamilton county delegate to the 1802 Constitutional Convention, [3] he was elected to the first State Senate a year later and served six months before becoming Ohio's first member of the United States House of Representatives. Morrow won four additional ...
Wells was a member of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in October 1802. [1] [5] Wells served as a member of the Ohio Senate, alongside Zenas Kimberly representing Jefferson County, during the first two terms, in the 1st Ohio General Assembly and 2nd Ohio General Assembly (1803 to 1804). He was elected in January 1803.
Cutler was nominated by his party at a county convention to be one of those four, who were each elected as delegates in September, and Cutler sat as a delegate to the Ohio Constitutional Convention November 1–29, 1802, [18] which wrote the Constitution accepted by Congress, and led to statehood in 1803.