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Ohio: Lieutenant Governors

Lieutenant Governors of Ohio, 1851-2010 (May be incomplete!)
William Medill 1852-53 James Myers 1854-56 Thomas H. Ford 1856-58 Martin Welker 1858-60 Robert C. Kirk 1860-62 Benjamin Stanton 1862-64 Charles Anderson 1864-65 Andrew R. McBurney 1866-68 John C. Lee 1868-72 Jacob Mueller 1872-74 Alphonso Hart 1874-76 Thomas L. Young 1876-77 H. W. Curtiss 1877-78 Jabez W. Fitch 1878-80 Andrew Hickenlooper 1880-82 Reese G. Richards 1882-84 John George Warwick 1884-86 Robert P. Kennedy 1886-87 Silas A. Conrad 1887-88 William C. Lyon 1888-90 Elbert L. Lampson 1890 William V. Marquis 1890-92 Andrew L. Harris 1892-96 Asa W. Jones 1896-1900 John A. Caldwell 1900-02 Carl L. Nippert 1902 Harry L. Gordon 1902-04 Warren G. Harding 1904-06 Francis W. Treadway 1909-11 Atlee Pomerene 1911 Hugh L. Nichols 1911-13 W. A. Greenlund 1913-15 John H. Arnold 1915-17 Earl D. Bloom 1917-19 Clarence J. Brown 1919-23 Earl D. Bloom 1923-25 Charles H. Lewis 1925-27 Earl D. Bloom 1927-28 William G. Pickrel 1928 George C. Braden 1928-29 John T. Brown 1929-31 William G. Pickrel 1931-33 Charles W. Sawyer 1933-35 Harold G. Mosier 1935-37 Paul P. Yoder 1937-39 Paul M. Herbert 1939-45 George D. Nye 1945-47 Paul M. Herbert 1947-49 George D. Nye 1949-53 John William Brown 1953-57 Paul M. Herbert 1957-59 John W. Donahey 1959-63 John William Brown 1963-75 Richard F. Celeste 1975-79 George V. Voinovich 1979 Myrl H. Shoemaker 1983-85 Paul R. Leonard 1987-91 Mike DeWine 1991-94 Nancy P. Hollister 1995- Lee I. Fisher 2007-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1851: Ephraim Ralph Eckley, defeated.
  • 1868: Alfred P. Edgerton, defeated.
  • 1871: Samuel F. Hunt, defeated.
  • 1875: Samuel Fenton Cary, defeated.
  • 1897 Nov 2: Asa W. Jones (Rep), elected; Melville D. Shaw (Dem), defeated; John Danner (Prohibition), defeated; Horace Whitcomb (People's), defeated; Daniel W. Wallace (Socialist Labor), defeated; Thomas M. Hillman (Liberty), defeated; Albert E. Merrill (Gold Democratic), defeated; Jason M. Tilley (Negro Protective), defeated.
  • 1910 Nov 8: Atlee Pomerene (Dem), elected.
  • 1924 Aug 12: Earl D. Bloom (Dem), nominated; Howard C. Black (Dem), defeated in primary; James I. Fogerty (Dem), defeated in primary; Frank S. Krause (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1924 Aug 12: Charles H. Lewis (Rep), nominated; Henry I. Emerson (Rep), defeated in primary; Clinton D. Boyd (Rep), defeated in primary; John H. Chester (Rep), defeated in primary; Roland G. Davis (Rep), defeated in primary; Asher A. Galbreath (Rep), defeated in primary; John F. Harrison (Rep), defeated in primary; John E. McCrehen (Rep), defeated in primary; Carl A. Magee (Rep), defeated in primary; Edwin Reed (Rep), defeated in primary; George W. Shanklin (Rep), defeated in primary; David A. Liggitt (Rep), defeated in primary; J. F. Atwood (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1924 Nov 4: Charles H. Lewis (Rep), elected; Earl D. Bloom (Dem), defeated; W. O. Blase (Commonwealth Land), defeated; James Goward (Socialist Labor), defeated.
  • 1926 Aug 10: Earl D. Bloom (Dem), nominated; William F. Grall (Dem), defeated in primary; Kenneth B. Johnston (Dem), defeated in primary; William F. Madden (Dem), defeated in primary; James A. Reynolds (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1926 Aug 10: James O. Mills (Rep), nominated; Charles A. Bracher (Rep), defeated in primary; J. F. Burke (Rep), defeated in primary; L. F. Cain (Rep), defeated in primary; Roland G. Davis (Rep), defeated in primary; Asher A. Galbreath (Rep), defeated in primary; Thomas J. McKim (Rep), defeated in primary; C. Edward Tippett (Rep), defeated in primary; Evan E. Watkins (Rep), defeated in primary; Henry I. Emerson (Rep), defeated in primary; W. W. Farnsworth (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1926 Nov 2: James O. Mills (Rep), defeated; William L. Slusser (Socialist), defeated; Felix J. Catlin (Socialist Labor), defeated; Earl D. Bloom (Dem), elected.
  • 1928 Aug 14: George S. Myers (Dem), nominated; William G. Pickrel (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1928 Aug 14: Albert E. Culbert (Rep), defeated in primary; George C. Braden (Rep), defeated in primary; John T. Brown (Rep), nominated; Roland G. Davis (Rep), defeated in primary; Edgar Ervin (Rep), defeated in primary; Allen C. McDonald (Rep), defeated in primary; William E. McKinley (Rep), defeated in primary; Alex M. Moore (Rep), defeated in primary; Charles L. Young (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1928 Aug 14: George C. Braden (Rep), nominated; Jacob Willner Epstein (Rep), defeated in primary; Edwin Reed (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1928 Nov 6: John T. Brown (Rep), elected; George S. Myers (Dem), defeated; William L. Slusser (Socialist), defeated; A. S. Pickett (Socialist Labor), defeated; Robert G. Reed (Prohibition), defeated; Carl Hacker (Workers Communist), defeated.
  • 1928 Nov 6: George C. Braden (Rep), elected unopposed.
  • 1930: John T. Brown (Rep), defeated.
  • 1938 Aug 9: James Metzenbaum (Dem), nominated; Frank R. Uible (Dem), defeated in primary; Ed Day (Dem), defeated in primary; Frank H. Ward (Dem), defeated in primary; John P. Rogers (Dem), defeated in primary; E. Matthews Steele (Dem), defeated in primary; Taylor Davidson (Dem), defeated in primary; Harry J. Halper (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1938 Aug 9: Paul M. Herbert (Rep), nominated; Charles A. Bracher (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1938 Nov 8: Paul M. Herbert (Rep), elected; James Metzenbaum (Dem), defeated.
  • 1958 May 6: Franklin E. Smith (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1985 Jul 30: Myrl H. Shoemaker, died in office.
  • 1986 May 6: Paul R. Leonard (Dem), nominated; Barbara Arnold Massey (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1986 May 6: Bob Taft (Rep), nominated; Charles F. Horn (Rep), defeated in primary; Vicki D. Pegg (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1986 Nov 4: Paul R. Leonard (Dem), elected; Bob Taft (Rep), defeated; Katie S. Smith, defeated; Lottie Mary Sulzer, defeated; Mark J. Rahn, defeated.
  • 1994 Nov 8: Kibwe Diarra (Socialist Workers), defeated.
  • 1998: Michael B. Coleman (Dem), defeated.
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