Earl Griffith

Harry Earl Griffith (born July 13, 1887 in Centerburg , Ohio , † March 30, 1940 in Columbus , Ohio) was an American newspaper publisher and politician ( Republican Party ). He was Secretary of State of Ohio from 1939 to 1940 .

Career

Harry Earl Griffith, son of Nellie Myrtle Gunsaulus (1865-1936) and Harry Saiger Griffith (1863-1919), was born in 1887 in Knox County . Nothing is known about his youth. Griffith attended public schools in Mount Gilead ( Morrow County ). He then went to Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware (Ohio). On April 17, 1912, he married Mary Clara Terry (1889–1979). The couple had a son named Terry Earl Griffith (1919-2000). Griffith issued the Morrow County Sentinel . He took over the newspaper after his father's death. The newspaper was founded in 1848 by his grandfather, John W. Griffith. Between 1928 and 1934 he served as a postmaster in Morrow County. Griffith was a prominent Republican in Morrow County and the state of Ohio. He participated in 1924 as a substitute ( alternate delegate ) in the Republican National Convention . In 1936 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Secretary of State. His candidacy for the same office in 1938 was successful. He held the post from 1939 until his death. Governor John W. Bricker then named George Neffner Secretary of State for the remainder of Griffith's term.

Earl Griffith died in Columbus in 1940 and was then buried in the River Cliff Cemetery in Mount Gilead.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Earl Griffith on The Political Graveyard website
2. ^ Mary Clara Terry in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved May 13, 2015.
3. ↑ Terry Earl Griffith in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved May 13, 2015.
4. ^ Abraham J. Baughman and Robert Franklin Bartlett: History of Morrow County, Ohio , Lewis publishing Company, 1911, p. 223
5. ↑ Earl Griffith on The Political Graveyard website

Web links

• Earl Griffith in the database of Find a Grave (English)