Benjamin Hough

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Benjamin Hough (born 1773 in Colony of Virginia , † September 4, 1819 in Chillicothe , Ohio ) was an American politician . He sat in both chambers of the Ohio General Assembly and was the Auditor of State of Ohio from 1808 to 1815 .

Career

Benjamin Hough, son of Elizabeth Wilson and Amos Hough, was born during the reign of George III. born in the Thirteen Colonies . His childhood was overshadowed by the War of Independence . In 1802 he lived in Jefferson County ( Northwest Territory ), where he carried out survey work in Cross Creek Township . The division took place in quarter sections (160 acres = 0.65 km 2 ). After Ohio became a state, he was elected County Commissioner in the first election held on April 2, 1804 . Hough represented Jefferson County in the Ohio Senate from 1805 to 1807 and in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1807 to 1808 . Thomas Gibson resigned as Auditor of State from Ohio on March 1, 1808. The legislature met on February 22nd, 1808, and would not have reassembled until December 1808. The Governor of Ohio Thomas Kirker therefore appointed as the new Hough Auditor of State. Hough was re-elected by the Legislature on December 18, 1809, and again on February 20, 1812. He held the post until March 15, 1815. After the end of his term of office, he stayed in the capital Chillicothe. He served in the Ohio Senate for Ross County from 1815 to 1816 . In the presidential election in 1816 he served as the Democratic Republican Party elector for James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins . Hough died in Chillicothe and was then buried in Grandview Cemetery .

He married Elizabeth Core on August 29, 1806. The ceremony was performed by Justice of the Peace Stephen Ford in Jefferson County (Ohio).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Western Herald" - Steubenville, Ohio, September 11, 1819 Online
  2. ^ Hunter, WH: Ohio History , Volume 8, Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications, 1900, p. 153
  3. ^ Hunter, WH: Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications , Volume 6, Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications, 1900, p. 217
  4. ↑ a b Manual of Legislative Practice in the General Assembly of Ohio , Westbote Company, 1917, pp. 217, 219 and 255
  5. ↑ a b Wickoff, Allen T .: Annual Report , Nevins & Myers, State Printers, 1875, p. 12
  6. ^ A b William Alexander Taylor and Aubrey Clarence Taylor: Ohio Statesmen and Annals of Progress , Press of the Westbote Company, 1899, pp. 51, 60, 71 and 102
  7. ↑ Jefferson County Ohio Genealogy Trails Newspaper Notices, Jefferson County, Ohio Page 62 ( Memento of July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  8. ↑ Grandview Cemetery
  9. ^ Tope, Melancthon: History of The Tope Family, 1896, p. 18
personal data
SURNAME Hough, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Virginia
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1819
Place of death Chillicothe , Ohio