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Seabury Ford

Seabury Ford lived in Burton, Geauga County, and served as Ohio's 20th governor from 1849 to 1850. He was the last Whig governor of Ohio.

Seabury Ford
Abbott, John S C (1875) The history of the state of Ohio: from the discovery of the great valley, to the present time ..., Detroit: R D S Tyler and Company, p. 571, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

At a glance

Born
1801-10-15
Died
1855-05-08
Education
Burton Academy, Burton, OH
Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1825
Known as
Politician, Governor, Lawyer
Organizations
Whig Party

Life story

Seabury Ford was born in 1801 in Cheshire, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale in 1825. He read law under Judge Peter Hitchcock in Burton and began practice in 1827. In 1828 he married Harriet E. Cook of Burton.

He represented Geauga County in the Ohio House from 1835 to 1841, serving one term as speaker, then sat in the state senate until 1848.

He won the 1848 governor's race by 311 votes. His 1849-50 term faced arguments over slavery and the Mexican War and a cholera epidemic. He was Ohio's last Whig governor and served only one term.

Not long after leaving office he suffered a stroke. He died in Burton in 1855 and is buried at Welton Cemetery.

Timeline

  • 1801-10-15: Born (Cheshire, CT) source
  • 1825: Graduates from Yale (New Haven, CT) source
  • 1827: Begins law practice (Burton, OH) source
  • 1828: Marries Harriet E. Cook (Burton, OH) source
  • 1835: Joins the Ohio House (Columbus, OH) source
  • 1841: Moves to the Ohio Senate (Columbus, OH) source
  • 1849: Becomes governor of Ohio (Columbus, OH) source
  • 1855-05-08: Dies (Burton, OH) source

What Seabury is known for

  • 20th Governor of Ohio, 1849-1850
  • Speaker of the Ohio House
  • Last Whig governor of Ohio

Family

  • wife: Harriet E. Cook

Places in Ohio to see

Ohio places

Where Seabury Ford was born, lived, worked and is remembered, with the ZIP code, town and county pages for each.

Further reading

Sources

Confidence. Medium: the main facts were confirmed, but some details (often an address or ZIP code) were not.

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