Daniel Symmes (1772 – May 10, 1817)
was a politician in the
U.S. State
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of
Ohio
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in the
Ohio State Senate
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, an
Ohio Supreme Court
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Judge 1805-1808, Mayor of Cincinnati 1808-1809, and register of the
Cincinnati
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land office.
Daniel Symmes was born at
. He was a nephew of the pioneer land speculator of southwest Ohio
John Cleves Symmes. He was educated at
Princeton College
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, and came west with his family, among the first settlers in the
Miami Purchase.
In 1794, he was appointed
Hamilton County Sheriff by Territorial Governor
Arthur St. Clair.
[ Symmes married Elizabeth Oliver on April 10, 1796 in ]North Bend, Ohio
North Bend is a village in Miami Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River. It is a part of the Greater Cincinnati area. The population was 857 at the 2010 census.
History
North Bend was founded in 1789. It was pla ...
.[ Symmes practiced law in Cincinnati, and, in June 1803, he was elected to the first Board of Directors of the first bank established in the State of Ohio, the ''Miami Exporting Company'' of Cincinnati. In 1803 he was appointed Prosecuting Attorney for several counties.][
Just after statehood, Symmes was elected to represent Hamilton County in the Ohio Senate for the first through third General Assemblies, 1803-1805. In 1805 the Ohio Legislature appointed him a judge of the Ohio Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy created when ]Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr.
Return Jonathan Meigs Jr. (; November 17, 1764March 29, 1825) was a Democratic-Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the fourth governor of Ohio, fifth United States Postmaster General, and as a United States senator.
Early life
Meigs ...
resigned.
In 1808-1809, Symmes served as President of the Cincinnati Council, (equivalent to Mayor).
Symmes was appointed register of the Cincinnati Land Office by President Jefferson, resigning from the court, and served for seven years.
Symmes died May 10, 1817 in Cincinnati. His wife remarried, to Thomas Graham, September 29, 1819.[
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Ohio lawyers
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1772 births
1817 deaths
Mayors of Cincinnati
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County district attorneys in Ohio
People from Hamilton County, Ohio
People from Sussex County, New Jersey
19th-century American lawyers