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John Crafts Wright
John Crafts Wright (August 17, 1783 – February 13, 1861) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Ohio and a journalist. He was the brother-in-law of Benjamin Tappan, United States Senate, U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1839 to 1845. Born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, Wright completed preparatory studies and then learned the trade of printer. He moved to Troy, New York, and edited the ''Troy Gazette'' for several years. He studied law at Litchfield Law School. He was Admission to the bar in the United States, admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1809. United States district attorney in 1817. Wright was elected to the 17th United States Congress, Seventeenth Congress, but resigned on March 3, 1821, before the beginning of the congressional term. Elected again to the 18th United States Congress, Eighteenth Congress, he began his service in that body as a National Republican, and continued to serve in the 19th United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the west, and Michigan to the northwest. Of the 50 List of states and territories of the United States, U.S. states, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 34th-largest by area. With a population of nearly 11.9 million, Ohio is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, seventh-most populous and List of U.S. states and territories by population density, tenth-most densely populated state. Its List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Ohio, most populous city is Columbus, Ohio, Columbus, with the two other major Metropolitan statistical area, metropolitan centers being Cleveland and Cincinnati, alongside Dayton, Ohio, Dayton, Akron, Ohio, Akron, and Toledo, Ohio, Toledo. Ohio is nicknamed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steubenville, Ohio
Steubenville ( ) is a city in Jefferson County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Located along the Ohio River west of Pittsburgh, it had a population of 18,161 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Weirton–Steubenville metropolitan area has an estimated 113,000 residents. The city's name is derived from Fort Steuben, a 1786 fort that sat within the city's current limits and was named for Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian military officer Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. Steubenville's nickname is the "City of Murals" after its more than 25 downtown murals. Historically, it was known as the hometown of Edwin Stanton, secretary of war during the American Civil War, as well as popular Rat Pack entertainer Dean Martin. It has recently attracted attention for the Steubenville Nutcracker Village, an annual Christmastime event. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati ( ; colloquially nicknamed Cincy) is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking River (Kentucky), Licking and Ohio River, Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky. It is the List of cities in Ohio, third-most populous city in Ohio and List of united states cities by population, 66th-most populous in the U.S., with a population of 309,317 at the 2020 census. The city is the economic and cultural hub of the Cincinnati metropolitan area, Ohio's most populous metro area and the Metropolitan statistical area, nation's 30th-largest, with over 2.3 million residents. Throughout much of the 19th century, Cincinnati was among the Largest cities in the United States by population by decade, top 10 U.S. cities by population. The city developed as a port, river town for cargo shipping by steamboats, located at the crossroads of the Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peace Conference Of 1861
The Peace Conference of 1861 was a meeting of 131 leading American politicians in February 1861, at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., on the eve of the American Civil War. The conference's purpose was to avoid, if possible, the secession of the eight slave states from the upper and border South that had not done so as of that date. The seven states that had already seceded did not attend. Background Before the 1860 election, Republicans were excitedly predicting the end of slavery even in the South. Republican President Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 led many in the South to conclude that now was the time for their long-discussed secession. Many pro-slavery Southerners, especially in the Lower South, were convinced that the new Republican government was determined to abolish slavery where it already existed. In much of the South, elections were held to select delegates to special conventions to consider secession from the Union. In Congress, efforts were made in both the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cincinnati, Hamilton And Dayton Railway (1895–1917)
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway may refer to: * Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway (1895–1917), earlier Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad (1847-1895), a steam railroad that became part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad * Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway (1926–1930), an interurban streetcar line {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cincinnati Gazette
The ''Cincinnati Commercial Tribune'' was a major daily newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in 1896, and folded in 1930.(3 December 1930)OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN CINCINNATI QUITS; Commercial Tribune Stopped by McLean Interests After Political Shift in Recent Election ''The New York Times'' The ''Commercial Tribune'' was created in 1896 by the merger of the longstanding ''Commercial Gazette'' and newcomer ''Cincinnati Tribune''.Bates, Charles AustinAmerican journalism from the practical side p. 86-88 (1897) Murat Halstead was a well-known editor of ''The Commercial'' and ''The Commercial Gazette'' in the 1860s-1880s. A representative of John Roll McLean, owner of ''The Cincinnati Enquirer'', acquired the paper in 1911, and continued to operate it as a Republican paper (as opposed to the Democratic Party slant of the ''Enquirer''). The decline in Republican fortunes and the financial situation of the paper in general led to its close in December 1930. History The ''Cincinnati C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cincinnati Law School
The University of Cincinnati College of Law is the law school of the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. History The University of Cincinnati College of Law was founded in 1833 as the Cincinnati Law School. It is the fourth oldest continuously operating law school in the United States — after Harvard, the University of Virginia, and Yale — and the first in the nation's interior. In 1900, it was a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools. Then-dean (and future 27th President of the United States) William Howard Taft (1880) merged it with the University of Cincinnati in 1896. Its notable alumni include two U.S. Supreme Court justices, Willis Van Devanter and Taft, who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after his presidency. Additionally, Jimmy Nippert, the namesake of the university's Nippert Stadium, was a student at UC Law at the time of his death in 1923. Until August 2022, the College of Law was located at the corner of Clifton Avenue and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Walker (judge)
Timothy Walker (December 1, 1802 – January 15, 1856) was an American lawyer who founded the Cincinnati Law School and was its first dean. Biography Timothy Walker was born in Wilmington, Massachusetts, US, to Benjamin and Susanna (Cook) Walker. He graduated from Harvard in 1826. From 1826 to 1829 he taught mathematics at the Round Hill School, and he studied law at Harvard Law School 1829 and 1830. In 1831 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where after a year spent in the law office of Bellamy Storer and Charles Fox he was admitted to the bar and joined a practice with the politician Edward King. They were joined in this partnership by another young Cincinnati lawyer, Salmon P. Chase, who left the firm after a few months to pursue his interest in banking law. Around this time Walker and Chase joined a literary salon, the Semi-Colon Club, where Walker met his first wife, Anna Lawler Bryant, the granddaughter of Matthew Lawler. In 1833, Walker, along with King and John C. Wright ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward King (Ohio Politician)
Edward King (March 13, 1795 – February 6, 1836) was an American politician and lawyer. He was an Ohio legislator and twice Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, and was on the first faculty of the Cincinnati Law School. Early life Edward King was born at Albany, New York on March 13, 1795. He was the fourth son of the Honorable Rufus King (1755–1827), who was then a Senator, and Mary (née Alsop) King. His maternal grandparents were John Alsop, a prominent merchant and Mary (née Frogat) Alsop. He had four brothers, including John Alsop King, the Governor of New York, Charles King, who was President of Columbia University, James Gore King, a U.S. Congressman, and Frederic Gore King. His father became the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain in 1796, and Edward spent his early youth in London. Evans 1917 : 172-173 He returned to the United States and graduated from Columbia University and from law school in Litchfield, Connecticut. Career In 1815, he moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the State of Ohio is the highest court in the U.S. state of Ohio, with final authority over interpretations of Ohio law and the Ohio Constitution. The court has seven members, a chief justice and six associate justices, who are elected at large by the voters of Ohio for six-year terms. The court has a total of 1,550 other employees. Since 2004, the court has met in the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center (formerly known as the Ohio Departments Building) on the east bank of the Scioto River in Downtown Columbus. Prior to 2004, the court met in the James A. Rhodes State Office Tower and earlier in the Judiciary Annex (now the Senate Building) of the Ohio Statehouse. The Ohio Supreme Court and the rest of the judiciary is established and authorized within Article IV of the Ohio Constitution. History The Supreme Court of Ohio was founded in 1802, established in the state constitution as a three-member court, holding courts in each county every year. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st United States Congress
The 21st United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1829, to March 4, 1831, during the first two years of Andrew Jackson's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1820 United States census. Both chambers had a Jacksonian majority. Major events * March 4, 1829: Andrew Jackson became 7th President of the United States * May 10–14, 1830: Confrontational meetings between the French Chargé d'affaires in Washington DC and a group of leaders consisting of Mark Alexander, William S. Archer, Robert H. Adams, Thomas Hinds, Dixon H. Lewis, Clement Comer Clay, Powhatan Ellis and John McKinley grew incredibly contentious and hostile. Arguments began when the aforementioned representatives and senators charged that France owed the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th United States Congress
The 20th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1827, to March 4, 1829, during the third and fourth years of John Quincy Adams's Presidency of John Quincy Adams, presidency. The apportionment of seats in the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives was based on the 1820 United States census. Both chambers had a Jacksonian Party (United States), Jacksonian majority. Major events * December 3, 1828: 1828 United States presidential election, U.S. presidential election, 1828: Challenger Andrew Jackson beat incumbent John Quincy Adams and was elected President of the United States Major legislation * May 24, 1828: Tariff of Abominations, ch. 111, Party summary The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this congress. Chang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
