Ohio Secretaries of State, 1803-2007(May beincomplete!) WilliamCreighton, Jr. 1803-08JeremiahMcLene 1808-31MosesH. Kirby 1831-35BenjaminB. Hinkson 1835-36CarterB. Harlan 1836-40WilliamTrevitt 1840-41JohnSloane 1841-44SamuelGalloway 1844-50HenryW. King 1850-52WilliamTrevitt 1852-56JamesH. Baker 1856-58AddisonP. Russell 1858-62BenjaminR. Cowen 1862WilsonS. Kennon 1862-63WilliamW. Armstrong 1863-65WilliamH. Smith 1865-68JohnRussell 1868-69IsaacR. Sherwood 1869-73AllenT. Wikoff 1873-75WilliamBell, Jr. 1875-77MiltonBarnes 1877-81CharlesTownsend 1881-83JamesW. Newman 1883-85JamesS. Robinson 1885-89DanielJ. Ryan 1889-91ChristianL. Poorman 1891-93SamuelM. Taylor 1893-97CharlesKinney 1897-1901LewisC. Laylin 1901-07CarmiThompson 1907-11CharlesH. Graves 1911-15CharlesQ. Hildebrant 1915-17WilliamD. Fulton 1917-19HarveyC. Smith 1919-23ThadH. Brown 1923-27ClarenceJ. Brown 1927-33GeorgeS. Myers 1933WilliamJ. Kennedy 1936-39EarlGriffith 1939-40GeorgeM. Neffiner 1940-41JohnE. Sweeney 1941-43EdwardJ. Hummel 1943-49CharlesF. Sweeney 1949-51TedW. Brown 1951-79AnthonyJ. Celebrezze, Jr. 1979-83SherrodBrown 1983-91BobTaft 1991-99KenBlackwell 1999-2007 Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1896 Nov 3:CharlesKinney (Rep), elected;ChiltonA. White (Dem), defeated;SamuelH. Rockhill (Prohibition), defeated;WesleyC. Bates (National), defeated;DanielW. Wallace (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1900:LewisC. Laylin (Rep), elected. 1902:HerbertSeely Bigelow (Dem), defeated;MaxS. Hayes (Socialist), defeated. 1924 Aug 12:JohnHenry Newman (Dem), nominated;LesterC. Riddle (Dem), defeated in primary. 1924 Aug 12:ThadH. Brown (Rep), nominated;EdwardJ. Hummel (Rep), defeated in primary. 1924 Nov 4:JasperShuman (Commonwealth Land), defeated;MartinPhalen (Socialist Labor), defeated;JohnHenry Newman (Dem), defeated;ThadH. Brown (Rep), elected. 1926 Aug 10:StephenM. Young (Dem), nominated;NewtBronson (Dem), defeated in primary;FrankS. Krause (Dem), defeated in primary;JohnHenry Newman (Dem), defeated in primary. 1926 Aug 10:ClarenceJ. Brown (Rep), nominated;JosephE. Cross (Rep), defeated in primary;EdwardJ. Hummel (Rep), defeated in primary. 1926 Nov 2:ClarenceJ. Brown (Rep), elected;StephenM. Young (Dem), defeated;HarrySchreiber (Socialist), defeated;WalterFreeman (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1928 Aug 14:CarlW. Smith (Dem), nominated;JohnHenry Newman (Dem), defeated in primary. 1928 Aug 14:ClarenceJ. Brown (Rep), nominated unopposed. 1928 Nov 6:ClarenceJ. Brown (Rep), elected;CarlW. Smith (Dem), defeated;EdnaHastings (Socialist), defeated;R.H. Richardson (Socialist Labor), defeated;FredW. Barrett (Prohibition), defeated;BruceT. Smith (Workers Communist), defeated. 1938 Aug 9:WilliamJ. Kennedy (Dem), nominated unopposed. 1938 Aug 9:EarlGriffith (Rep), nominated;GeorgeE. Turner (Rep), defeated in primary;EdwardJ. Hummel (Rep), defeated in primary;JustinL. McCarthy (Rep), defeated in primary. 1938 Nov 8:EarlGriffith (Rep), elected;WilliamJ. Kennedy (Dem), defeated. 1990:BobTaft (Rep), elected. 1994:BobTaft (Rep), elected. | |
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