Allen Trimble
Allen Trimble | |
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Speaker of the Ohio Senate | |
In office December 6, 1819 – December 3, 1826 | |
Preceded by | Robert Lucas |
Succeeded by | Abraham Shepherd |
Member of the Ohio Senate from Highland and Fayette counties | |
In office 1817–1826 | |
Preceded by | Samuel Evans |
Succeeded by | John Jones |
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Highland County | |
In office 1816–1817 | |
Preceded by | James Johnston |
Succeeded by | Joseph Swearingen |
Personal details | |
Born | Augusta County, Virginia | November 24, 1783
Died | February 3, 1870 Hillsboro, Ohio | (aged 86)
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Children | Eliza Thompson (daughter) |
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Allen Trimble (November 24, 1783 – February 3, 1870) was a
Biography
Governor Trimble was born Hugh Allen Trimble in
Career
Trimble was a clerk of the Common Pleas Court in 1808. He also served as recorder of deeds in 1808.[3]
After briefly serving during the
Trimble ran an election for a full term in 1822, but narrowly lost. He challenged Jeremiah Morrow again in 1824, narrowing the distance between the two, but still losing. He won a landslide election in 1826, however, as a National Republican and then won a second full term in 1828. Trimble did not seek re-election in 1830.
He then retired to farming, taking little part in politics for the next quarter-century, but did consent to accepting the nomination of the
Death
Trimble died at his family farm in Ohio, and was buried in Hillsboro Cemetery in Hillsboro, Ohio.
Legacy
Trimble, Ohio, a village in Athens County, Ohio, is named in Trimble's honor. Court Street, a street in Hillsboro, Ohio, on the north side of the Highland County Courthouse, was renamed "Governor Trimble Place" in 1974.[4]
Trimble's daughter, Eliza, helped to initiate the temperance movement in the United States.
Trimble is an ancestor of astronomer Virginia Louise Trimble[5]
References
- ^ a b "Allen Trimble". Ohio Historical Society. Archived from the original on May 16, 2012. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
- ^ Scotland's mark on America By George Fraser Black page 57
- ^ "Ohio Governor Allen Trimble". National Governors Association. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
- ^ "Streets Get New Names And Signs". The (Hillsboro) Press Gazette. September 11, 1974.
- ^ Virginia Trimble (2013). 2013 Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy at the University of Louisville with speaker Virginia Trimble, "Blurring the Boundaries Among Physics, Chemistry and Astronomy: The Moseley and Bohr Centeneries". Retrieved October 27, 2016.