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Governor Portraits
John Pattison was born in Clermont County, Ohio in 1847 and died in 1906. He served in the closing days of the Civil War, and later taught school before attending Ohio Wesleyan Un ...
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George Washington Williams Room
Trailblazer John P. Green was the second African American to serve in the Ohio House of Representatives and the first to serve in the Ohio Senate. He was born in 1845 to free, lig ...
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Governor Portraits
John William Bricker was born in 1893 to parents of Bavarian and Scotch/Irish descent. Bricker was from Madison County, Ohio and attended Mt. Sterling High School. He served in Wo ...
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Governor Portraits
Governor Brown was from Medina, Ohio. A Republican, he served as Lieutenant Governor from 1953 through 1957 when he became Governor serving in that capacity for 11 days. Brown was ...
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George Washington Williams Room
Born in Jackson, Mississippi to Reverend John W.E. Bowen, Jr. and Margaret Davis Bowen, Senator John Bowen attended Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania until he was drafted ...
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Ladies' Gallery
Jolynn Boster was the second woman ever elected to serve Gallia County in the Ohio General Assembly; her district, the 94th, also included Meigs and Athens counties. She resided i ...
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Governor Portraits
Joseph Foraker was born in Highland County, Ohio in 1846. In 1862 Foraker joined the Eighty-ninth Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company A. He served with this corp. as ...
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Governor Portraits
Governor Vance was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1786 and died in Urbana, Ohio in 1852. He moved to Ohio with his family in 1801, and built the first log cabin to be ...
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George Washington Williams Room
Josh Williams was elected to represent Ohio's 41st House District, which includes the Oregon, Ohio area near Toldeo. Representative Williams is an example of the power of persist ...
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Ladies' Gallery
Joy Padgett has served her district has both a Representative and a Senator in the Ohio General Assembly. Padgett represented Holmes County, Coshocton County, and parts of Musking ...
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