The US Territory North West of the Ohio (or North West Territory) - was established
in 1787 out of Native American lands ceded to the US by Great Britain in 1783.
At its greatest extend the territory covered the present-day states of Illinois,
Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, as well as part of Minnesota.
In 1800 most of these lands - except Ohio itself and the eastern part of present-
day Michigan - were detached and organized into the new US Territory of Indiana.
In 1803 what remained of the Northwest territory was divided between :
- the US State of Ohio (the southern, most populated part),
- the territory of Indiana (the northern part).
Ohio in the Civil War
Except for a Southern raid in Jul 1863 [Commanding Officer Cavalry Corps, Army of
Tennessee : BrigGen. John Hunt Morgan (1825 - 1864)], Ohio remained untouched by
the war.
(1) The UK only gave up its last claims on the area in 1814, when the treaty of
Ghent ending the War of 1812 - 1814 was signed.
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STATE OFFICERS
Governors
1846 - 1849 William Bebb 1801 - 1873
1849 - 1850 Seabury Ford 1801 - 1855
1850 - 1853 Reuben Wood 1792 - 1864
1853 - 1856 William Medill (*1853 - 1854) 1802 - 1865
1856 - 1860 Salmon Portland Chase 1808 - 1873
1860 - 1862 William Dennison Jr. 1815 - 1882
1862 - 1864 David Tod 1805 - 1868
1864 - 1865 John Brough 1811 - 1865
1865 - 1866 Charles Anderson* 1814 - 1895
1866 - 1868 Jacob Dolson Cox 1828 - 1900
1868 - 1872 Rutherford Birchard Hayes 1822 - 1893
1872 - 1874 Edward Follanshee Noyes 1832 - 1890
1874 - 1876 William Allen 1803 - 1879
1876 - 1877 Rutherford Birchard Hayes (2x)
1877 - 1878 Thomas Lowry Young* 1832 - 1888
1878 - 1880 Richard Moore Bishop 1812 - 1893
1880 - 1884 Charles Foster 1828 - 1904
1884 - 1886 George Hoadly 1826 - 1902
1886 - 1890 Joseph Benson Foraker 1846 - 1917
1890 - 1892 James Edwin Campbell 1843 - 1924
1892 - 1896 William McKinley Jr. 1843 - 1901
1896 - 1900 Asa Smith Bushnell 1834 - 1904
1900 - 1904 George Kilborn Nash 1842 - 1904
1904 - 1906 Myron Timothy Herrick 1854 - 1929
1906 John M. Pattison 1847 - 1906
1906 - 1909 Andrew Lintner Harris* 1835 - 1915
1909 - 1913 Judson Harmon 1846 - 1927
1913 - 1915 James Middleton Cox 1870 - 1957
1915 - 1917 Frank Bartlett Willis 1871 - 1928
1917 - 1921 James Middleton Cox (2x)
1921 - 1923 Harry Lyman Davis 1878 - 1950
1923 - 1929 Alvin Victor Donahey 1873 - 1946
1929 - 1931 Myers Young Cooper 1873 - 1958
1931 - 1935 George White 1872 - 1953
1935 - 1939 Martin Luther Davey 1884 - 1946
1939 - 1945 John William Bricker 1893 - 1986
1945 - 1947 Frank John Lausche 1895 - 1990
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