Thomas H. Ford

Thomas H. Ford


3rd Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
In office January 14, 1856 – January 11, 1858
Governor	Salmon P. Chase
Preceded by	James Myers
Succeeded by	Martin Welker
Personal details
Born	(1814-08-23)August 23, 1814 Rockingham County, Virginia
Died	February 29, 1868(1868-02-29) (aged 53) Washington, D.C.
Resting place	Mansfield Cemetery, Mansfield, Ohio
Political party	Republican

Thomas H. Ford (August 23, 1814 – February 29, 1868) was an American Republican politician who served as the third Lieutenant Governor of Ohio from 1856 to 1858.^[1]

Ford was born August 23, 1814 at Rockingham County, Virginia. He had little formal education and his occupation was a farmer. He studied law and was admitted to the bar.^[2] He moved to Mansfield, Ohio,^[3] and became an anti-slavery leader. After delivering a speech at Philadelphia espousing the Republican party, he was offered the nomination for Lieutenant Governor in 1855, and won election to a single term.^[4] In 1860, he was chosen Government Printer by the United States House of Representatives. He served in the Mexican War, and was Colonel of the 32nd Ohio Infantry, Ohio Volunteer Militia during the U.S. Civil War. Ford was arrested in 1862, and sent to Washington, D.C. for trial by a military commission. He was charged with having neglected his duty in the defense of Maryland Heights at the Battle of Harpers Ferry, September, 1862. After trial, Ford was ordered dismissed from the service on November 8, 1862, by order of the War Department.^[5] He located in Washington, D.C., where he had a lucrative law practice, and where he died February 29, 1868.^[2]

He was buried in Mansfield Cemetery.^[3]

Notes

↑ "Lieutenant Governors Of The State Of Ohio: 1852 - Present". Ohio Secretary of State. Retrieved 2012-01-24.
1 2 Smith 1898 : 44
1 2 Baughman, A. J., ed. (1901). A Centennial biographical history of Richland County, Ohio. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company. p. 75.
↑ 1855 election Ford 169,408 Democrat James Myers 134,385 from Smith 1898 : 40
↑ Reid 1895 : 214

References

Smith, Joseph P, ed. (1898). History of the Republican Party in Ohio I. Chicago: the Lewis Publishing Company.
Reid, Whitelaw (1868). Ohio in the War Her Statesmen Generals and Soldiers 2. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company.

Political offices
Preceded by James Myers	Lieutenant Governor of Ohio 1856–1858	Succeeded by Martin Welker

Governors and Lieutenant Governors of Ohio

Governors	Tiffin Kirker Huntington Meigs Looker Worthington E. Brown Trimble Morrow Trimble McArthur Lucas Vance Shannon Corwin Shannon T. Bartley M. Bartley Bebb Ford Wood Medill Chase Dennison Tod Brough Anderson J. D. Cox Hayes Noyes Allen Hayes Young Bishop Foster Hoadly Foraker Campbell McKinley Bushnell Nash Herrick Pattison Harris Harmon J. M. Cox Willis J. M. Cox Davis Donahey Cooper White Davey Bricker Lausche Herbert Lausche J. Brown O'Neill DiSalle Rhodes Gilligan Rhodes Celeste Voinovich Hollister Taft Strickland Kasich

Lieutenant Governors	Medill Myers Ford Welker Kirk Stanton Anderson McBurney Lee Mueller Hart Young Curtiss Fitch Hickenlooper Richards Warwick Kennedy Conrad Lyon Lampson Marquis Harris Jones Caldwell Nippert Gordon Harding Harris Treadway Pomerene Nichols Greenlund Arnold Bloom C. Brown Bloom Lewis Bloom Pickrel Braden J. T. Brown Pickrel Sawyer Mosier Yoder Herbert Nye Herbert Nye J. W. Brown Herbert Donahey J. W. Brown Celeste Voinovich Shoemaker Leonard DeWine Hollister O'Connor Bradley Johnson Fisher Taylor

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