Andrew Graham McBurney (November 13, 1817 – April 23, 1894) was an American

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politician who served as the eighth

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from 1866 to 1868.

Biography

McBurney was born in 1815 near

Montgomery, Ohio Montgomery is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, settled in 1795. The town was a coach stop on the Cincinnati-Zanesville Road, later known as the Montgomery Pike, with an inn, two taverns, a grist mill and a carding mill to proces ...

, and was the eldest son of James and Magdalen Falen McBurney. The family soon moved to

Lebanon, Ohio Lebanon is a city in and the county seat of Warren County, Ohio, United States. The population was 20,841 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. History Lebanon is in the Symmes Purchase. The first European settler ...

, where McBurney finished his apprenticeship as a cabinet-maker in 1836. Smith 1898 : 212 He

read law Reading law was the method used in common law countries, particularly the United States, for people to prepare for and enter the legal profession before the advent of law schools. It consisted of an extended internship or apprenticeship under t ...

in 1840, and was admitted to the bar 1843. He became a law partner to Thomas Corwin.

Career

McBurney was a Democrat until the start of the

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, when he became a Republican. In 1861 and 1863, he was elected to the

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, representing the Second District (

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and Warren counties) in the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth General Assembly. In 1865, he was elected Lieutenant Governor, serving one term.1865 election McBurney 224,943 Democrat William Lang 193,510 from Smith 1898 : 209 He was an

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on the

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/ Colfax ticket in 1868, but did not again participate in Politics. In 1871 he was co-counsel with

Clement Vallandigham Clement Laird Vallandigham ( ; July 29, 1820 – June 17, 1871) was an American politician and leader of the Copperhead faction of anti-war Democrats during the American Civil War. He served two terms for Ohio's 3rd congressional district in t ...

in a murder trial. He was the only witness to see Vallandigham accidentally shoot himself to death in the ''

Golden Lamb Inn The Golden Lamb Inn is the oldest hotel in Ohio, having been established in the Warren County seat of Lebanon in 1803. The present four-story structure is built around the 1815 rebuilding of the inn, maintaining its colonial architecture. It ...

''. He died 1894 in Lebanon. McBurney is buried in Lebanon.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mcburney, Andrew G. Lieutenant Governors of Ohio 1815 births 1894 deaths People from Montgomery, Ohio Ohio lawyers Republican Party Ohio state senators 1868 United States presidential electors 19th-century American politicians American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law People from Lebanon, Ohio 19th-century American lawyers